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The EU has provided €6.5m in new funding as the UN's World Food Programme mission in Somalia faces an unprecedented cash flow crisis (Photo: European Commission)

UN aid agency faces shut down, despite new EU Somalia funds

The UN World Food Programme’s operations in Somalia will be forced to close in April unless it can raise $90m [€75m] from international donors in the coming months — despite receiving €6.5m from the EU just last week.  

The WFP is one of many UN and other international aid agenci...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The EU has provided €6.5m in new funding as the UN's World Food Programme mission in Somalia faces an unprecedented cash flow crisis (Photo: European Commission)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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