UN officials said they are still far short of reaching all of the Haiti earthquake victims estimated to need food.

Gunmen last night killed a Somalian aid worker of the UN food agency in southern Somalia, officials said.

The UN today said only a tiny portion of international relief is reaching Burma’s cyclone victims, amid reports the country’s military regime is hoarding high-quality foreign aid for itself while people make do with rotten food.

Burma’s military regime distributed international aid today but plastered the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week’s devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.

About 150,000 people have had to flee their homes in north-west Central African Republic because of fighting in the region, a UN aid group said today.