US buying Ukraine grain shipments for African regions on brink of starvation, UN says
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The United Nations says the United States will buy thousands of tons worth of grain shipments from Ukraine to address the unfolding hunger situation in Northern Africa.
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The planned shipment is one of several the U.N. agency that fights hunger is pursuing and is more than six times the amount of grain that the first WFP-arranged ship from Ukraine is now carrying toward the Horn of Africa.
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