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United States halts food aid for Somali women and children

September 28th, 2009
Categories: News

Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/soma-s28.shtml

The World Food Programme has closed 12 feeding centres for women and children in Somalia because it has insufficient money to continue. Aid workers have told the BBC that the cuts are the result of US restrictions on aid to areas that are under the control of groups designated as terrorists.

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