WFP suspends operations in much of southern Somalia

2010/01/05 06:07:59 @Reuters: World News

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) has suspended its work in much of southern Somalia due to threats against its staff and unacceptable demands by al Shabaab rebels controlling the area, a WFP spokesman said on Tuesday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=GHLJGQj38II:P2xv8gC6eEk:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=GHLJGQj38II:P2xv8gC6eEk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=GHLJGQj38II:P2xv8gC6eEk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=GHLJGQj38II:P2xv8gC6eEk:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=GHLJGQj38II:P2xv8gC6eEk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/GHLJGQj38II" height="1" width="1"/
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