India Gives Africans Funds to Buy Its Wheat
Associated Press
NEW DELHI —
India has donated about $9.6 million to a fund that enables famine-stricken African countries to buy Indian wheat, a government spokesman said Friday.
Salman Haidar, spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs, told reporters that the fund will be administered by the Organization of African Unity.
India has already contributed about 100,000 tons of wheat for African relief.
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