{"id":12598,"date":"2023-09-21T22:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=12598"},"modified":"2023-09-23T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T08:48:47","slug":"somalia-bans-resale-of-aid-after-alleged-theft-of-eu-funds-through-wfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/09\/21\/somalia-bans-resale-of-aid-after-alleged-theft-of-eu-funds-through-wfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia bans resale of aid after alleged theft of EU funds through WFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0Somalia banned the trading of humanitarian aid stuff in a black market following the suspension of EU funds through the UN Food Agency [WFP] over theft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement was made in a press release jointly issued by the National Disaster Management Agency, the Ministries of Relief of the Federal States, and the Banadir region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision is aimed at preventing the corruption of humanitarian aid from foreign countries and relief organizations which are meant to save the lives of the drought victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnyone involved in the black marketing or resale of humanitarian aid goods from aid agencies will be brought to court and prosecuted,\u201d reads the joint statement in part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EU halted all funds to WFP after a corruption scandal of $7 million intended to give the IDPs in cash through voucher cards. Security force members and local officials are involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia is beset by a severe drought that impacted 8 million people, half of the country\u2019s population due to five years of successive failed rainy seasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: SMN\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/shabellemedia.com\/somalia-bans-resale-of-aid-after-alleged-theft-of-eu-funds-through-wfp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0Somalia banned the trading of humanitarian aid stuff in a black market following the suspension of EU funds through the UN Food Agency [WFP] over theft. The announcement was made in a press release jointly issued by the National Disaster Management Agency, the Ministries of Relief of the Federal States, and the Banadir region. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12600,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions\/12600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}