EU executive says aid payments for Somalia 'temporarily suspended'


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Sep 2023

FILE PHOTO: Internally displaced Somali children gather outside their makeshift shelters at the Ladan camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Dollow, Somalia May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Ayenat Mersie//File Photo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The European Union's executive said on Tuesday that disbursements of humanitarian aid in Somalia were "temporarily suspended" after a U.N. probe found widespread theft and misuse of support meant to avert famine.

Quoting senior EU officials, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday that the European Commission had temporarily suspended funding for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Somalia because of the U.N. findings.

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