U.N. council wants probe of Somalia aid diversion

Another tangled web of Bullshit the U.N. is involved in !
And along with it a costly and lengthy investigation into the %100 Corrupt Organizations World Food Program and the U.N. .
We also see How Al Shabaab has its filthy hands in Everything , even UNICEF !
Corruption makes the World go Round !


(Reuters) - Members of the U.N. Security Council want an outside investigation of charges of widespread diversion of U.N. aid to radical Islamist rebels in Somalia, Mexico's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.

"There is a large consensus for the idea of an independent investigation that should be carried out," Mexican Ambassador Claude Heller told reporters after a closed door meeting of the 15-nation Security Council.

A report submitted to a council committee by a U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions against Somalia and Eritrea said up to half the food aid for needy Somalis was being diverted to a network of corrupt contractors, al Shabaab militants and local U.N. staff.

It also said a Somali businessman linked to al Shabaab who likely received a ransom paid for kidnapped aid workers was a contractor for both the World Food Program (WFP) and the U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, in Somalia.

Al Shabaab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, has pledged loyalty to al Qaeda and wants to impose its own harsh version of sharia law throughout the country.

The 74-page report, seen by Reuters, outlines such serious problems that it recommends U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon open an independent investigation into the WFP's operations in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, which has been without an effective government since 1991.