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Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 03:00
Categories: 
Corruption [2]
Issue Number: 
546 [3]
Article-Summary: 

An iWatch News report finds that as the famine in southern Somalia worsens, aid experts fear that corruption and the politics of terrorism are crimping the flow of humanitarian relief to areas where starvation is worst. Abundant U.S. aid targeted for the Horn of Africa cannot directly reach starving people in southern Somalia because it’s blocked by Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda-aligned Islamist group labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/corruption/76038 [5]
Country: 
Somalia [6]

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