UN stops Mogadishu food distribution

The WFP says about 60 soldiers arrested their official, Idris Osman, who has been taken to the headquarters of the National Security Service.

It has received no explanation for the raid or the arrest.

The director of communications for the World Food Program, Nancy Roman, says it is important to resume handing out food.

"We are calling on authorities to release our employee, and from our perspective what we want to do is to get back to the work of providing food assistance to the people who don't have it," he said. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation