Chinese Ships Carrying Rice arrive in Mogadishu

[Strategic]

Mogadishu City included in the Belt and Road countries

The first vessel carrying rice departed Shanghai on Monday, part of China's emergency food aid for drought-stricken Somalia.

The 2,821.75 tonne-rice, loaded in two ships, will be given to 223,500 Somali people as their provisions for four months, according to the China office of World Food Programme (WFP).

The rice is among the 2-billion-yuan (300-million-US-dollar) emergency food aid plan announced by China for Belt and Road countries at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation last month.

WFP China Representative Qu Sixi said the Belt and Road Initiative would help countries to "help each other" eradicate poverty and hunger.

"WFP is extremely grateful to the Chinese government for its longstanding commitment to addressing urgent humanitarian needs to vulnerable people on the brink of famine," he said.

Half of the Somali population, including 363,000 acutely malnourished children aged under five, need urgent assistance as its drought intensifies, especially in southern and northeastern parts of the country, according to WFP.

[TheNewElectedWarLord]

Mogadishu City included in the Belt and Road countries

The first vessel carrying rice departed Shanghai on Monday, part of China's emergency food aid for drought-stricken Somalia.

The 2,821.75 tonne-rice, loaded in two ships, will be given to 223,500 Somali people as their provisions for four months, according to the China office of World Food Programme (WFP).

The rice is among the 2-billion-yuan (300-million-US-dollar) emergency food aid plan announced by China for Belt and Road countries at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation last month.

WFP China Representative Qu Sixi said the Belt and Road Initiative would help countries to "help each other" eradicate poverty and hunger.

"WFP is extremely grateful to the Chinese government for its longstanding commitment to addressing urgent humanitarian needs to vulnerable people on the brink of famine," he said.

Half of the Somali population, including 363,000 acutely malnourished children aged under five, need urgent assistance as its drought intensifies, especially in southern and northeastern parts of the country, according to WFP.

Hopefully it ain't the fake rice, China is selling plastic rice bruh.

[Strategic]

why would they give plastic rice to starving somalis?

[xiimaaya]

why would they give plastic rice to starving somalis?

Ninyahow new ppl and countries are interested in Somalia Somali friends are diversifying mashallah from Indonesia to China .

[bumps]

China make fake rice. watch it on youtube it's shocking.

[Strategic]

China make fake rice. watch it on youtube it's shocking.

ungrateful bstard.dont bite the hand that feeds your starving clans.

[TheNewElectedWarLord]

China make fake rice. watch it on youtube it's shocking.

ungrateful bstard.dont bite the hand that feeds your starving clans.

bruh he is right, China is making fake ass rice. Ain't nobody biting their hand. They already sold Plastic rice to african countries and got caught so why would they give you free real rice
So everyone is just curious.

[GalliumerianSlayer]

To think that we used to grown our own produce