Another UN Program That Fails The Needy And Provides Support To The Corrupt And The Enemy

Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, U.N. Study Finds -- New York Times

As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report.

The report, which has not yet been made public but was shown to The New York Times by diplomats, outlines a host of problems so grave that it recommends that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon open an independent investigation into the World Food Program’s Somalia operations. It suggests that the program rebuild the food distribution system — which serves at least 2.5 million people and whose aid was worth about $485 million in 2009 — from scratch to break what it describes as a corrupt cartel of Somali distributors.

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My Comment: It seems that every UN aid program gets tangled with corruption, stealing, and giving aid and comfort to those who created the crisis in the first place. Somalia has been receiving aid and monies for years .... but the misery continues. From my vantage point, I would say that a different approach should be looked at, because the present one is clearly not working.