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Somalia: UN agency acts on Somali food-aid claims
[BBC News: 2010-03-11]

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The UN"s food agency has blacklisted three contractors named in a UN report which alleged that food aid in Somalia was being diverted.The World Food Programme said it would not engage in any new work with the contractors and welcomed the report. The WFP stressed that it had dealt with many of the concerns in the report. The UN monitoring group document said corrupt contractors, militants and local UN workers were diverting food a. . .

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