SOMALIA SCANDAL: The UNDP officers in Mogadishu pay money for explosions against their building center

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IN ORDER TO RETURN THEIR OFFICES IN NAIROBI AND INCREASE THEIR "SECURITY SUBSIDIES" UNDP STAFF PAYS FOR FAKING EXPLOSIONS AND ATTACKS INTO THEIR COMPOUND.

Mogadishu (Sunatimes) The Somali government security officials have accused UNDP officers to manage the explosions against their center in Mogadishu which is lacked of casualty.

"The chief security of UNDP office in Mogadishu, Mr. Guled Yusufpays money for the explosions against its center, and we have known that sometimes a bottle with lubricate throw into UNDP building which cannot do Al shabab group. Second the explosions against UNDP center don’t cause any injury and death but the objective is two points only" said a Somali government security official who requested to hide his name.

While this security officer talking about the two points said "Mr. Guled wants to move UNDP from Mogadishu to Nairobi, so if this doesn’t work he likes to increase his salary in order to recruit militias from clan"

The chief security of UNDP in Mogadishu, Mr. Guled Yuusf is the cousin of Al shabab spokesman named Mr. Ali Dhere, therefore Mr. Guled was accused that he behinds the kidnap against the UNDP officials in Somalia as well as he invests the militias from Al shabab.

The UN officers in Mogadishu don’t affectionate to work inside of Somalia because of they used to enjoy in Nairobi hotels for the extra money that they take as salaries.

By Hawo Abdulle

UNDP Somalia Lies:- "We have no famine", says Somalian prime minister

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The world’s aid agencies have become “lords of poverty” and their claim that famine has struck Somalia’s capital is “absolutely” false, according to Abdiweli Mohammed Ali, the country’s prime minister.

Abdiweli Mohammed Ali, Somalia's prime minister Photo: CORBIS

By David Blair, Mogadishu

8:00PM GMT 13 Dec 2011

Mr Ali, who leads Somalia’s officially recognised government, chose the week when the United Nations has appealed for $1.5 billion to help his country’s people to deliver a stinging attack on relief workers.

A Harvard-educated economist, he believes they have become an “entrenched interest group”, exaggerating the scale of suffering in order to drum up donations.

The United Nations says that 250,000 Somalis are suffering from famine in three regions of the country, including Mogadishu. Patches of waste ground across the bullet-scarred city, devastated by two decades of war, are filled with the shacks of refugees who have fled drought and food shortages. Children with distended bellies and stick-like limbs can be seen in many of these sand-blown camps.

Seated in his air-conditioned office, Mr Ali said the UN’s judgment that famine had struck his capital was wrong. “I have no idea how this international community makes the grading. You ask them and tell me how they did it. They don’t know what they’re talking about. But what I can say is enough relief came to Somalia and we provided enough relief to those affected by the famine.”

Mr Ali added: “I don’t believe there’s a famine in Mogadishu. Absolutely no. You know the aid agencies became an entrenched interest group and they say all kind of things that they want to say.”

Mr Ali cited a searing critique of aid workers, “Lords of Poverty”, written by Graham Hancock, a British author, in 1989. “I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist, but I believe a lot of what has been said in the 'Lords of Poverty’ book by Graham Hancock,” added the prime minister.

Mr Ali leads a government that depends almost completely on outside donations. Somalia, which collapsed into anarchy in 1991, has no tax system and the prime minister’s administration controls little territory beyond Mogadishu.

Its only significant source of revenue is the capital’s port, which brings in around $12m per year. Virtually all of the rest of this year’s budget of $100m comes from other countries. Mr Ali’s government is probably the most donor-dependent in the world.

Nonetheless, the prime minister said that aid workers “became themselves lords of poverty. They say what they want to say. I don’t want to accuse them, but the statistics that they use sometimes doesn’t make sense to me.”

Aid officials were privately incredulous about Mr Ali’s remarks. The UN says that “tens of thousands” of Somalis have died of hunger this year. Mark Bowden, the humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, said the situation was “expected to remain critical well into next year” and that $1.5 billion was needed to meet the “emergency needs of 4 million people in crisis”.

At Walalah camp in Mogadishu, over 1,000 people live in shacks fashioned from cardboard and brushwood. Because of the dangers of operating in the capital, UN relief agencies have only a skeleton presence. So far, no aid of any kind has reached this camp.

Farhiya Abdi has lived in a shack in Walalah since drought killed all of the animals her family once herded in their home village in Somalia’s interior. Her twin babies are both emaciated from hunger. So far, Mrs Abdi has received no food aid whatever. Only donations from the elders who control the camp have kept her and the children barely alive.

“This is worse than the situation back there in the village,” she said. “But I cannot go back there because all the animals are dead.”

The World Food Programme is supplying feeding centres in the city, but the nearest is several miles away and Mrs Abdi is took weak to walk that distance. Her life, she said, was dominated by “hunger”.

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UN investigates theft and sale of Somalia famine food aid

• Associated Press in Mogadishu
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 August 2011 19.32 BST

WFP says thousands of sacks stolen and sold in markets but suspending aid programme would cause more deaths (CLICK HERE FOR STORY by AP)

Somalis at a refugee camp in Mogadishu. There are reports of food aid being stolen and resold in markets nearby. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Thousands of sacks of food aid meant for famine victims are being stolen and sold at markets in neighbourhoods where children in refugee camps do not have enough to eat.

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) acknowledged it had been investigating food theft in Somalia for two months. WFP officials said the "scale and intensity" of the famine crisis did not allow for a suspension of assistance, which would lead to "many unnecessary deaths".

And the aid is not even safe once it has been distributed to families huddled in the makeshift camps popping up around the capital. Families at the government-run Badbado camp said they were often forced to hand back aid after journalists had taken photos of them with it.

Ali Said Nur said he received two sacks of maize twice, but each time was forced to give one to the camp leader.

"You don't have a choice. You have to simply give without an argument to be able to stay here," he said.

The UN says more than 3.2 million Somalis – nearly half the population – need food aid after a severe drought that has been complicated by Somalia's long-running war. More than 450,000 Somalis live in famine zones controlled by militants linked to al-Qaida, where aid is difficult to deliver. The US says 29,000 Somali children under the age of five have already died.

Officials have expected some of the food aid pouring into Somalia to go missing. But the sheer scale of the theft taking place calls into question aid groups' ability to reach starving people. It also raises concerns about the willingness of aid agencies and the Somali government to fight corruption, and whether diverted aid is fuelling the country's 20-year-civil war.

"While helping starving people, you are also feeding the power groups that make a business out of the disaster," said Joakim Gundel, head of Katuni Consult, a Nairobi-based company that evaluates international aid efforts in Somalia. "You're saving people's lives today so they can die tomorrow."

The WFP Somalia director, Stefano Porretti, said the agency's system of independent, third-party monitors uncovered allegations of possible food diversion. But he underscored how dangerous the work is: WFP has had 14 employees killed in Somalia since 2008.

"Monitoring food assistance in Somalia is a particularly dangerous process." In Mogadishu markets, vast piles of food sacks are for sale with stamps on them from the WFP, the US government aid arm USAID and the Japanese government. AP found eight sites where aid food was being sold in bulk and in numerous smaller stores. Among the items being sold were corn, grain and Plumpy'nut – a specially fortified peanutbutter designed for starving children.

An official in Mogadishu with extensive knowledge of the food trade said he believed a massive amount of aid was being stolen – perhaps up to half of aid deliveries – by unscrupulous businessmen. The percentage had been lower, he said, but the flood of aid into the capital in recent weeks with little or no controls had created a bonanza for businessmen.

At one of the sites for stolen food aid, about a dozen corrugated iron sheds are stacked with sacks. Outside, women sell food from 50kg (110lb) sacks, and traders load the food on to carts or vehicles in full view of local officials.

Somalia: Professor Dalha said, “UNDP controls Somalia”.

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MOGADISHU (sunatimes.com) in an interview he gave to Keydmedia, Professor Mohamed Omar Dalha, former deputy parliament speaker told that United Nations development program’UNDP’ controls Somalia.

There is no an independent Somali government and every thing given to the government either economic or other materials passes through UNDP line and it represents Somalia, therefore the government is guest, Professor Dalha said.

Professor Mohamed Omar Dalha, is an MPs now and he added that all government councils come under UNDP saying that ministries of health, agriculture are under UN agencies for those affairs.

Speaking about the conflict between top government leaders, Mr. Dalha explained that it is based on leadership livelihood and this comes as there are differences between government officials and a time the situation in the capital is worsening day after day and many Somali civilians are dying in the on going clashes.