Saturday, August 20, 2011

Half of Somalian aid may not reach starving refugees

The Center for Public Integrity : Investigations

World

A family sits in Mogadishu after fleeing their home in Southern Somalia.   Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Thousands of sacks of food aid meant for Somalia's famine victims have been stolen and are being sold at markets in the same neighborhoods where skeletal children in filthy refugee camps can't find enough to eat, an Associated Press investigation has found.

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