Some 23,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat arrived in Djibouti by ship late last month. Now, trucks have delivered a portion of that wheat to the World Food Program's main warehouse in Ethiopia, where food aid is desperately needed. The World Food Program said the 23,000 tons of grain is enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month. Ukrainian food exports were cut off for months until Ukraine and Russia reached an U.N.-backed agreement last month to open a corridor for the free flow of food shipments. The WFP says this is the first humanitarian aid shipment from Ukraine to arrive in Ethiopia under the agreement.

Source: Ethiopian News September 08, 2022 20:54 UTC