Stig Jarle interviewed by Bistandsaktuelt
Evy JørgensenWarlords have been multi-millionaires as contractors for the World Food Program in Somalia. Now the UN agency coordinating the world's largest relief efforts.
Krigsherrer søkkrike av FN-kontrakter
After the UN report revealed how this organisation had assisted strengthening the local strong leaders, the contracts with those who for years had had control over food deliveries were discontinued, according to a UN report from 2011. But even if steps to improve transparancy and control are taken, WFP still hasn't an overview of the situation.
- Businessmen are using western sub-contractors who in turn use other sub-contractors. Aid-profiteers' companies are registered in the U.S. so they have an appearance as a non-Somali companies. Leading WFP and other UN organisations keep donating large sums of money to the country's war economy.
In an upcoming report that Stig Jarle Hansen is one of the authors, "Conflict, Corruption, Perception, Remedies - The role of United Nations in War Economies", it is claimed that both the UN and other international actors are paying taxes to Al-Shabaab. "It is claimed that the WFP is bad but other UN agencies in Somalia have the same problems," the authors write.
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Updated: 06.09.11
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