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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: How the UN is Fighting Hunger in Somalia
Description: How the international community saves lives in conflict prone countries or insecure places is becoming increasingly relevant and important to global affairs. On the line to walk me through the nuts and bolts of one of these relief operations is Laurent Bukera, who runs the World Food Program's operations in Somalia. We have a pretty fascinating conversation about how a humanitarian agency like the World Food Program operates in profoundly difficult environments beset by insecurity and terrorism. Laurent walks me through some of WFP's operations in Somalia--that is how they deliver aid and some of the ch...