A boy at the Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia.
A boy at the Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia. The EC Commission, worried that food is not reaching the starving because of the chaotic state of the country, will today put forward proposals to divert money from a Third World aid plan to logistical and military support for relief convoys. But Britain is expected to 'shoot the plan down in flames'.
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