KYIV: A ship with Ukrainian wheat destined for Ethiopia arrived in port on Saturday, the first vessel to sail as part of a push to send food to countries most vulnerable to famine and drought, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Last Saturday, Ukraine and allied nations launched an initiative to export US$150 million worth of grain to Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Congo, Kenya, and Yemen.
“We ship food. We ship hope,” Zelensky said in a tweet accompanying a short clip of a vessel carrying 25,000 tonnes of wheat for Ethiopia that he said had arrived in the port of Doraleh, in neighbouring Djibouti.
Zelensky said on Friday that by early next year, a total of around 60 ships would have delivered cargoes.