Next door in Uganda, international donors lined up to announce they were suspending aid programmes following a corruption scandal in the office of the prime minister.

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After a series of reports found that the Bulgarian government had failed to tackle these issues effectively, the EU announced in July 2008 that it was suspending aid worth hundreds of millions of euros.

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The UN says it is suspending all its food distribution centres in the Gaza Strip after protesters angered by aid cutbacks stormed one of its compounds.

BBC: UN suspends Gaza food centres after compound attack