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UN trucks with food leaves for Somalia
MOGADISHU. Dec 20: United Nations trucks carrying 300 tones of food left under armed US escort for the Somali town of Baidoa today, reports Reuter.
Two helicopter gunships hovered above the convoy of 20 white trucks, led by two US light armoured vehicles, as it left the port in the capital Mogadishu on its 250 km (150 mile) Journey at 6 am (0300 GMT).
US marines in Jeeps mounted with machineguns rode shotgun with the convoy, which carried enough wheat to fed 100,000 hungry mouths for a week.
The Journey was expected to take about ftvc-and-a-half hours.
Il will be the first big convoy of food l<> reach Baidoa the city of death" at the epicentre of Somalia's starvation, since July.
The last convoy on November 1 1. was hijacked by looting gunmen on the outskirts of the southern town. Only two of 32 trucks on that mission made it into Baidoa.
"We believe that this convoy is in fact the beginning of the end of the humanitarian crisis
here." Paul Mitchell of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) told Reuters.
Tt s what we've been look ing forward to doing all along," he said.
Some 900 US marines and French legionnaires thrust into Baidoa on Wednesday in the first big push inland since American-led forces landed In Mogadishu on December 9.
Mitchell said WFP planned to run similar convoys three times a week to Baidoa and to operate sorties to other towns in Somalia's famine belt as soon as the multinational force had extended Its security um-. brella to them.
Until foreign forces arrived in Somalia on their mission to keep pillaging bandits at bay, food had reached Baidoa only by a far less efficient and more costly airlift from Kenya.
The trucks in today's convoy. airlifted into Mogadishu frt>m a WFP transport fleet in Ethiopia, will take the food to 20 distribution points in Baidoa as soon as they arrive.
The load they carried Included 150 tonnes of wheat from the WFP and 150 tonnes from the Australian branch of the International relief agency CARE.
US and French troops escorted their first food convoy into the Bush around Baidoa on Thursday.
US General Joseph Hoar, overall commander of operation restore hope, later acknowledged that about 15 per cent of that relief had been looted by gunmen minutes after It was dropped off in two hamlets.
US military spokesman Colonel Fred Peck said such losses were inevitable and that foreign forces In Somalia, set to swell to 38,000 could not "Watch over every grain out thert.”