US suspends assistance to Somalia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia’s federal government over allegations that Somali officials destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for impoverished civilians. The department said Wednesday that “the Trump Administration has a zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft, and diversion of life-saving assistance.” It’s not immediately clear how much assistance would be affected by the suspension because the Trump administration has slashed foreign aid expenditures and not released new country-by-country data.