So, the problem is the corruption at the checkpoints that the al-Shabaab would issue.

Mr. Konyndyk, I want to ask you a specific question regarding what you referred to as a systemic problem in the administration regarding licensing.

Is there any security for NGOs provided either U.N.-wise or by the African Union in terms of getting the material into Somalia?

I want to particularly thank Wouter Schaap from CARE USA, headquartered in my hometown of Atlanta, GA, for being here.

I wanted to be quite clear. I understand that it is important that the administration and our country do everything they can to prohibit U.S. aid getting into terrorist hands.

the work that the United States is doing to get democratic institutions to tackle corruption in return for MCC compacts and other things of that nature, is changing Africa.

This is a children's crisis. There are hundreds of thousands of children on the verge of death suffering from severe malnutrition in the Horn of Africa.

But it is important with this many people at threat of losing their lives that we have an expedited procedure to the maximum extent possible.

But there is still some difficulty of getting it there.

In Somalia, after that issue, it is still a pretty dangerous place, and al-Shabaab has used violence and intimidation to carry out its intent.

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