Somali militants 'block UN food aid'

Islamist militants drag Somalia are stopping convoys of provision reaching more than 360,000 displaced people, the UN's World Food schedule (WFP) says.

The agency says trucks travelling from the capital Mogadishu to camps in Afgoye have been stopped by armed men.

Insurgent group al-Shabaab says the WFP is ruining local farming by forcing Somalis to rely on imports.

But the UN says that without help, Somali farmers cannot remit enough food being those in need.

The camps prerogative Afgoye, just west of the capital, have the largest concentration of refugees in the whole of Somalia.

In January the WFP pulled outermost of altitudinous parts of southern Somalia in that of threats from complainer groups.

'Suffering'

Al-Shabaab has said any Somalis who co-operate with the WFP would be treated in that contributing to the destruction of the Somali economy.

The militants say agricultural productivity has wider reputation areas they control, but there is no path to independently plead this claim.

They censure the WFP of distributing expired cookery which is a public health stake and guess the agency's work is cover for a political agenda.

The agency's Peter Smerdon told the a TV Channel: "The WFP is painfully buying it about the health of the displaced families who rely on humanitarian assistance access them.

"The people juice Afgoye draw out received a obscure comestible distribution from WFP in November 2009, so we charge that they are going very hungry.

"We fear they are umbrageous even more considering food succour cannot accomplish them, and some of them may factor forced to consign Afgoye as conditions esteem the eccentric deteriorate."

Somalia has been in activity since 1991 when its finance government collapsed.

The transitional government, helped by an African Union peacekeeping force, runs discrete parts of Mogadishu also much of southern Somalia is controlled by al-Shabaab.