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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: compaqxp on August 15, 2011, 05:37:36 PM
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Somalia food aid stolen, sold in markets
Thousands of sacks of food aid meant for Somalia's famine victims have been stolen and are being sold at markets in the same neighbourhoods where skeletal children in filthy refugee camps can't find enough to eat, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The UN's World Food Program for the first time acknowledged it has been investigating food theft in Somalia for two months. The WFP said that the "scale and intensity" of the famine crisis does not allow for a suspension of assistance, saying that doing so would lead to "many unnecessary deaths."
Children from southern Somalia lineup to receive cooked food in Mogadishu on Monday.Children from southern Somalia lineup to receive cooked food in Mogadishu on Monday. Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press
And the aid is not even safe once it has been distributed to families huddled in the makeshift camps popping up around the capital. Families at the large, government-run Badbado camp said they were often forced to hand back aid after journalists had taken photos of them with it.
(more at link)
Link (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/08/15/somalia-food-aid-stolen-refugees.html)
I good example why I haven't donated.
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Friggin Pirates. We need to halt all aid to that place.
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I saw a story on the UK Daily Mail a couple of days ago, where one of their correspondents spent a day or two in the refugee camp. Seeing those poor people and what they've gone through just makes me cry. This kind of news just makes the situation so much worse. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this type of thing happens quite a bit with foreign aid. It's a disgrace.
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I saw a story on the UK Daily Mail a couple of days ago, where one of their correspondents spent a day or two in the refugee camp. Seeing those poor people and what they've gone through just makes me cry. This kind of news just makes the situation so much worse. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this type of thing happens quite a bit with foreign aid. It's a disgrace.
It happens with most foreign aid that is delivered to governments instead of directly to the people.
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18 + years later and the warlords are still intercepting drops...
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Econ 101. Not the Keynesian model.
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It happens with most foreign aid that is delivered to governments instead of directly to the people.
There is no government in Somalia........
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There is no government in Somalia........
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Yep. Whoever has a vehicle a gun, and a couple of stooges with guns, and gets to the food first, suddenly is a rich man, a big man, a powerful man by local standards. That's the Econ 101 thing.
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Last Monday, the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) confessed that for two months now it has been looking to the routine theft of food relief to famine ravaged Somalia. An earlier investigation by the Associated Press (AP) revealed that as much as fifty percent of food donated to the Somali relief efforts is ending up being sold on the open industry by unscrupulous merchants - Food help to Somalia being ripped off and sold in market (http://www.newsytype.com/10135-somalia-aid-stolen/). *sigh* It's really not surprising, but sadly they're supposed to be there to help not the other way around. :(
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There is only one cure for Somalia........
carpet bomb the entire damned Nation.
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There is only one cure for Somalia........
carpet bomb the entire damned Nation.
Glass Bowl. :-)
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U.N.
nuff said.