{"id":188956,"date":"2022-05-19T05:40:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T04:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=188956"},"modified":"2022-05-19T05:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T04:40:21","slug":"us-announces-215m-food-assistance-to-nigeria-algeria-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/19\/us-announces-215m-food-assistance-to-nigeria-algeria-others\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces $215m food assistance to Nigeria, Algeria, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said that the US government would provide an additional $215 million emergency food assistance in Nigeria, Algeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, among other countries.<\/p>\n<p>He said the US has pledged more than $2.3 billion in food assistance since February to cushion the impact of the Ukrainian war on the benefitting countries.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the US Department of State on Wednesday disclosed that Blinken stated this before a meeting with the foreign affairs ministers of Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, South Africa, Zambia, and Senegal, at the United Nations headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The invasion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/18\/russian-soldier-21-pleads-guilty-to-war-crimes-in-ukraine-admits-shooting-a-62-year-old-man-in-the-head\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> by Russia on February 24 led to global food and fertiliser shortage due to the inability of the two countries to export wheat, corn, cooking oil and fertilisers.<\/p>\n<p>Russia had allegedly frozen the export of wheat from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The senior US official said, \u201cFirst, we\u2019re addressing the humanitarian needs caused by the war of aggression against Ukraine. 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