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Kenya among countries to receive food donation from Ukraine

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Wheat grain is seen on the MV Brave Commander vessel from Yuzhny Port in Ukraine as it docks in Djibouti, Aug. 30, 2022. (Hugh Rutherford/World Food Program/Handout.[Reuters]

The first shipment of grain as part of Ukraine's own initiative to supply countries in need arrived Monday in Djibouti for delivery to neighboring Ethiopia amid the region's worst drought in decades.

Ukraine's embassy in Ethiopia confirmed that the "Grain from Ukraine" shipment of 25,000 tons is separate from a United Nations World Food Program effort that has funded humanitarian grain shipments from Ukraine.

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