How the UN is Fighting Hunger in Somalia

WFP logistics team carrying bags of food through the flooded grounds of Somalia

How the international community saves lives in conflict prone countries or insecure places is becoming increasingly relevant and important to global affairs. With more people displaced around the world than at any time since World War Two there is an urgent need for humanitarian agencies to deliver more and more aid to more and more complex environment. This is not just in Africa, but in the middle east and beyond.

On the line to discuss the nuts and bolts of one of these relief operations is Laurent Bukera, who runs the World Food Program's operations in Somalia. We have a pretty fascinating conversation about how a humanitarian agency like the World Food Program operates in profoundly difficult environments beset by insecurity and terrorism.

Laurent walks me through some of WFP's operations in Somalia--that is how they deliver aid and some of the challenges of working in that country. These challenges incl…