Sunday, August 21, 2022 –Food consignment to the tune of 23,000 tones is arriving in the Region to help curb the current shortage.
Making the confirmation on Friday August 19, United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasly, said the first consignment is on its way to the Horn of Africa.
The food donation will be helping give a sigh of relief to many families in Africa which are going through a difficult economic period as the war between Russia-Ukraine rages on.
Furthermore, this donation was informed by the biting drought which hit Africa in 2019 leading to approximately 1.5 million families distressed as well as starved.
“I think there’s a high probability we’ll have a declaration of famine,” Beasley explained as was quoted by the Associated Press.
He divulged that, through Djibouti, Africa will be receiving its share through road transportation; an exercise that will officially commence on August 27.
United States of America USA will also be purchasing 150,000 metric tones of grain from Ukraine to help save lives in all hunger stricken nations.
This development is occurring at the time many Kenyans cannot put food on the table due to increased prices of all basic commodities including flour and cooking oil.