The US has said it will send aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab.
But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution.
The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls.
Along with (re)building mosques, more demonstrated incoherency in US foreign policy. When we will realize/remember we can not buy friends or good will towards the principles this country stands for with money.
Last few times we sent aid to Somalia, it didn’t work out too well.
No. 1: – true enough re buying friends. But the point is to feed the starving. I want my country always to have that instinct.
And of course we can accept at face value the the “assurances” given by Al Shabab.