The topic of hunger on the African continent has not left the pages of the world media for more than a decade, some of the media people who covered it ended by suicide. The current situation with the implementation of the “Grain Initiative” project in Ethiopia is detailed by the Ministry of Infrastructure.
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The bulk carrier IKARIA ANGEL left the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk with 30,000 tons of wheat on board. The ship was chartered by the UN World Food Program and is headed to Ethiopia, which is on the verge of a food disaster, the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure reports.
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“70 million of the socially unprotected population of the world, in particular in Africa and Asia, are on the verge of starvation precisely because of the full-scale invasion of Russia”, – the results of the calculations of the United Nations Organization are cited in the ministry.
In addition to the mentioned, only for the past day another 9 vessels departed from Ukrainian ports. In general, during the implementation of the initiative on the safe transportation of agricultural products, 23 ships already left Ukrainian ports for African countries. 0.64 million tons of food are on board. Currently, 159 vessels with 3.6 million tons of agricultural products left Ukrainian ports.
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“We sent 3 ships with more than 90 thousand tons of wheat for the people of Ethiopia and Yemen. The plan is to export another 190,000 tons, which are currently being purchased by partners from the UN,” detailed the head of the department Oleksandr Kubrakov.
The topic of hunger on the African continent has not left the pages of the world media for more than a decade. One of the most famous photos to cover it was a photo by Kevin Carter of The New York Times on March 26, 1993.
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Depicts a starving Sudanese boy with a hawk in the background waiting for his death to feed on the child's flesh. The picture won the Pulitzer Prize, and Carter committed suicide four months after receiving the award.
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