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'A bowl of rice with a bit of grass in it’

Jakob Kern runs the United Nations World Food Programme operation in Syria. Listen as he tells the Âé¶¹Éç’s Dan Saladino about how the practice of profiteering from a war-time food economy leaves little food for civilians.

(Photo: People unload food aid in Damascus in June, 2016 Credit: Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images)

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