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Somalia: Al-Shabaab Bans WFP Food Distribution in Southern Somalia

Somalia's insurgent group Al-Shabaab has banned the UN World Food Program from distributing humanitarian foodstuffs bearing US flag in southern Somalia. Full Article at AllAfrica.com

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  1. Permitting recruitment of fighters in refugee camps undermines the very purpose of the camps – to be a place of refuge from the conflict ... Kenyan authorities need to immediately put a stop to this recruitment drive targeting Somali refugees.
    SOURCE: Relief Web 1 month ago
  2. Kenyan government-backed recruiters are luring young men with false claims of UN and other international support ... Getting the recruiters out of the camps and publicly dissociating the UN from any involvement are first steps to shutting the program down.
    SOURCE: Relief Web 1 month ago
  3. Rumors of recruitment in refugee camps by Somalia's warring factions have been rife for years, but a Kenyan government-sanctioned program of this magnitude is unprecedented ... The government's denials of its involvement are completely implausible.
    SOURCE: Relief Web 1 month ago
  4. We believe that if the Somali government [and] the United States government ... cooperate, we can bring stability to Somalia
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  1. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 25: President of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed waits to address the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters on September 25, 2009 in New York City.
  2. DADAAB, KENYA - AUGUST 24: Somali refugees seek information about a move to a different displacement camp due to overcrowding August 24, 2008 at Dadaab, the world�s biggest refugee complex in Dadaab, Kenya.
  3. NAIROBI, KENYA - AUGUST 18: A woman begs for money with her children in Eastleigh, a predominantly Muslim Somali neighborhood on August 18, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya.
  4. Somali women wait to be registered at U.N. registration center in Dagahaley refugee camp in Daadab, northern Kenya on Thursday June 25, 2009.
  5. This photo taken on June 21, 2009 shows a Somalia government soldier near the frontline where government forces are fighting to gain ground against hardline islamist insurgents.
  6. NEW YORK - MAY 8: Maersk Capt. Richard Phillips arrives at the Blue Room to receive the keys to the city from Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall on May 8, 2009 in New York City.
  7. WASHINGTON - APRIL 30: John Clancey,chairman of Maersk, Inc. participates in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, April 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on recent attacks by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
  8. ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD - APRIL 16: Members of the crew of the17,000-ton container ship Maersk Alabama wave as they debark a plane April 16, 2009 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Pirates seized the ship on April 8 off the coast of Somalia taking captive their captain, Capt.
  9. UNDERHILL, VT - APRIL 14: People sit on a porch near a welcome home sign in sea Capt. Richard Phillips' hometown two days after he was rescued by U.S. Navy SEALS from pirates near the coast of Somalia April 14, 2009 in Underhill, Vermont.

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