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Tue 03 Mar 2010Somali militants block distribution of UN food aid
MILITANTS IN Somalia are preventing food from reaching 625,000 people, a UN World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman said yesterday, a day after the food agency was banned by the Islamist group from working in the impoverished country.
Trucks carrying food aid have not been allowed to pass through the Afgooye corridor near the capital, Mogadishu, for two weeks, WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon said, preventing the agency from reaching the most needy people.
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