Contractors Are Accused in Large-Scale Theft of Food Aid in Somalia

Published on 17 August 2011

Beyond freelance gunmen, Islamist militants, cholera, malaria, measles and the staggering needs of hundreds of thousands of starving children, aid agencies scrambling to address Somalia’s famine now may have another problem to reckon with: the wholesale theft of food aid.(..)“We’re looking into this,” Greg Barrow, a spokesman for WFP, said Tuesday. He said WFP was first alerted several months ago to the possibility of stolen food aid in the capital, Mogadishu, but added that he did not want to provide specifics, in the event that the allegations were baseless.

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