The camp owner, Adad Hassan Jimali, emerges to give us a tour. A stout woman in a black headscarf, she leads us past rows of tents and old latrines.
Her camp looks like one you might find in any war-torn country or see on CNN. But Jimali is not a professional aid worker. She is the widow of a powerful government official who gave her this land. She paid to have it cleared to make space for the tents. And at first it's not clear why she's doing this. The U.N. isn't paying her a salary to help these people. The people are mostly too poor to pay rent.
When I ask her how she pays for all this, it's awkward. First she says she's doing it for Allah and gets no money at all.
I ask again, and she admits, OK, if there's some extra food from the aid agency left over, she'll take some of that, and sell it, for cash.
Since when in the history of giving food to starving people has there been lots of foodleft over?

You viruses deserve genocide. 99% of Somali would do this. Ive read reports of people doing this in Puntland and Somaliland too.. selling food aid... so no clan bashing
I am,
Abdi "
