World IN BRIEF : SOMALIA : U.N. Brings Food to Starving City
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Somalis began unloading more than 5,000 tons of wheat from a U.N. vessel docked at Mogadishu’s newly reopened port, a U.N. official said. The port is crucial to an international relief operation aimed at feeding the malnourished population of the Somali capital, where hundreds of people have died of starvation.
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