Word: franch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SOMALIA, SAYS ANA LIRIA Franch, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Angola, "the country's strong are eating its weak." In Malanje government employees steal and sell medical supplies intended for the hospital. Bandits have been making off with an estimated third of the U.N.'s food aid as soon as it hits the ports. There is profiteering in the refugee camps by local chiefs appointed as middlemen in the food-distribution chain. "Given the hardships of everyday life here, they don't see anything wrong with what they are doing," says a relief official...