The UN food agency has warned it will stop shipments to central Somalia for 10 years if one of its ships hijacked by pirates is not returned in 48 hours.
The World Food Programme's director for the region, Robert Hauser, was speaking after reports the pirates were in talks with Somalia's interim government.
It also follows Kenyan claims that the WFP was delaying the ship's release by refusing to talk to the warlords
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