From the time when the administration of President Donald Trump decided to suspend global aid programs, the food supplies accumulated by USAID have stuck in four government warehouses. Two of them are found in Africa – in Djibuti and South Africa, one in Dubai and one in Houston, Texas. It is located in their 60 to 66 thousand. tons of food from American farmers and producers.
The prepared packages include High -energy cookies, vegetable oil and enriched cereals. Their value is over $ 98 million.
Some stocks, whose expiry date expires in July, will probably be burned, or used as animal feed, or reinforced in a different way – said the sources of the Reuters agency.
Amiating hunger data
The agency, using the data of the World Food Program (WFP), calculated that the accumulated and decaying products could feed over 1 million people for three months or, for example, the entire population of the Gaza Zone for a month and a half. According to WFP, one ton of food – usually covering cereals, legumes and oil – can satisfy the daily demand of about 1660 people.
In the latest report from mid -May, WFP announced that currently about 343 million people around the world are struggling with a sharp level of food safety. Of these, 1.9 million is on the verge of hunger. Most of the endangered people live in Africa. The worst situation is in Sudan's civil war, but hunger also bothers the inhabitants of the South Sudan and Mali enclave.
Food inflation, sharpened by rising fuel prices, also brought an unprecedented threat of hunger in Ghana, Guinea and on the coast of ivory. Food prices are also still rising in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Liberia.
