From Gaza to South Sudan, private firms deliver aid and face questions

From Gaza to South Sudan, Private Firms Deliver Aid and Face Questions

From South Sudan to Gaza, private firms deliver aid and face questions

Run by former US soldiers and officials, Fogbow says it provides vital aid to people in need in war-ravaged South Sudan

From Gaza to South Sudan, private firms deliver aid and face questions

By Aaron Ross

From Gaza to South Sudan, private firms deliver aid and face questions - Radio Tamazuj

Fifty-kilo sacks of food hurtled out the open hatch of the cargo plane, scattering in the wind on their 1,000-foot descent to the northeastern flatlands of South Sudan, reports Reuters’ Aaron Ross. For the past three weeks, an American company run by former U.S. soldiers and officials has airdropped hundreds of tonnes of maize flour, beans and salt into one of the world’s most desperate pockets of hunger. The campaign, which South Sudan’s govern…

US firm’s South Sudan aid airdrops questioned

Sacks of maize flour, beans and salt have been parachuting onto South Sudan’s Upper Nile state for weeks, part of a government-funded relief effort carried out not by the United Nations or an aid agency but by Fogbow, a U.S. company run by former American soldiers and officials. The firm says it has delivered hundreds of metric tons of food to areas cut off by fighting since February between the army and local militias. South Sudan’s government …