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Delays In Procuring Food Aid, Funding Hampering Relief Efforts In Somalia, Aid Agencies Say
"Famine relief efforts in Somalia are being hampered as much by delays in procuring food aid and raising funds as by difficulties in accessing Islamist-controlled areas, according to humanitarian organizations working there," the Guardian reports. Staff from several aid agencies working within al-Shabab-controlled areas "say the major problem in responding to the crisis is the time it is taking to buy food abroad and to transport it to the worst-hit areas," the newspaper writes (Rice, 8/4).
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