Strategies to Avoid a Return to Famine Conditions in Somalia

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Mr Rajiv Shah , USAID administrator

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The WFP had to design a flexible program so that families could use the nearest hot-meal center as they moved between neighborhoods to avoid fighting. The price of flexibility was less control over theft, officials acknowledge.

The AP, along with a network of seven Somali observers who for their safety cannot identified, conducted more than 60 visits to 13 of the 21 sites where hot meals are prepared. From those visits, interviews with aid recipients and internal reports, it emerges that:

— Somali aid groups would cook and distribute at least 30 percent more food when expecting visits by journalists or WFP officials.

— Some food was trucked directly from an aid agency warehouse to the market to be sold for profit.

— WFP's independent monitors repeatedly sounded the alarm, saying relatives of Somali aid workers would receive large handouts while others went without. One of their reports spoke of supplies being fed to livestock.

— A Somali government official stole 74 metric tons of food, according to an internal WFP report obtained by AP.

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