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The Fighting has not spread to where the aid is being delivered...Yet.
But Al Shabab will continue to wreak terror among the people in other places because of the aid.
Give them time.
Foxnews
Heavy fighting has broken out in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a day after the UN World Food Programme airlifted in its first famine emergency aid.
At least four people are reported to have been killed as government forces, backed by African Union troops, attacked Islamist insurgents.
The BBC's Mohammed Dhore in Mogadishu says the clashes are in northern areas and unlikely to affect the aid effort.
Thousands have arrived into government-controlled suburbs in search of food.
Correspondents say if the pro-government forces manage to gain more ground this could enable aid agencies to increase the areas where they can deliver food aid to victims of the severe drought.
The WFP delivery is the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two southern areas of Somalia last week.
Al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda linked group which controls much of Somalia, has banned the WFP from its areas.
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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.
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.
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