Who’s Aiding Somalia?
Food deliveries to Somalia:
U.S.: 34.5 metric tons of beans, rice, wheat and cooking oil to Belet Huen, in western Somalia, from the Kenyan port of Mombasa, using four C-130 cargo planes.
GERMANY: 20 metric tons of food, mostly grains, to Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, from Mombasa, in two Transall cargo planes.
UNITED NATIONS: A ship was unloading 10,000 tons of sorghum at Mogadishu, but a gang of looters raided the port in three tanks and took up to 300 tons of food and 199 barrels of fuel, the entire fuel supply for relief operations in Somalia.
INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS: Its airlift was effectively taken over by the United States; it continues to deliver small amounts of food to victims along the Indian Ocean coast north of Mogadishu by helicopters from ships offshore.
TOTAL: About 30,000 tons of food is being delivered each month, about half of what the International Red Cross estimates is needed.
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