Aid agencies 'paid Somalia's al-Shabab' during famine

Humanitarian agencies paid Somalia's al-Shabab militants for access to areas under their control in the 2011 famine, according to a joint report by two think tanks. In many cases al-Shabab insisted on distributing the aid and kept much of it for itself, the report says. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25295821#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa