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The United Nations' food agency has suspended all aid shipments to Somalia after one of its ships was hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast last week. The World Food Programme ship was taking aid to victims of the last December's Indian Ocean tsunami. The MV Semlow was ...
Read Story at BBC News (2005-07-06)
World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday suspended all shipments of humanitarian assistance to Somalia following the hijacking of a chartered vessel carrying food aid for 28,000 tsunami survivors. The UN food distribution agency took the decision because of the rising insecurity within the Somali territorial waters. In a statement issued ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-07-07)
A Somali national was killed when gunmen exchanged fire at a village in drought-stricken southern Somalia while the United Nations food agency was delivering food aid, prompting the organisation to appeal to local leaders and militias for safer access and protection.The incident happened on Tuesday at Salagle village in Sakow ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2006-03-24)
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed the release of a food aid-laden Kenya-registered ship "MV Miltzow," detained by Somali pirates for 32 hours. The vessel and its 10-member crew - nine Kenyans and a Uganda - were carrying WFP food aid to drought-stricken people in southern Somalia. ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-10-15)
A food aid ship seized by Somali pirates three months ago has left the port where it was expected to unload, aid workers say. The MV Semlow was carrying World Food Programme aid for Somali victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, when it was seized off the Somali ...
Read Story at BBC News (2005-09-22)
NAIROBI, Tuesday Related Stories Militia orders UN agency to leave Somalia The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday vowed to continue delivering food aid to Somalia despite an Islamist insurgent group having ordered them to cease all operations. Al Shabaab, which controls much of south ...
Read Story at Daily Nation (2010-03-02)
The United Nations food agency has delivered 2,400 mt of food aid to Somalia in a bid to ease a shortage of relief supplies in the country that had been caused by unavailability of grain in the regional market, officials said.World Food Programme's (WFP) deputy country director for Somalia, Leo ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2004-08-12)
The United Nations food agency said on Thursday that it had signed a deal with a Somali group to distribute food to displaced civilians in Mogadishu, a day after aid groups said a catastrophe was unfolding. The World Food Programme (WFP) suspended food distribution to more than 75 000 ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2007-11-03)
The World Food Programme has suspended its deliveries of food aid to Somalia by sea, after an attempt by pirates to seize one of its chartered ships. The head of the UN food agency said their programme to feed one million Somalis is now under threat. The WFP-chartered vessel ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2007-05-21)
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 ...
Read Story at BBC News (2010-03-11)
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