World Food Programme to send 50,000 tonnes of wheat flour to Lebanon

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DUBAI: The World Food Programme (WFP) will send 50,000 tonnes of wheat flour to Lebanon after last week's blast at Beirut's port destroyed its ...

"A temporary bulk receiving facility is needed for grain imports to ensure adequate national stocks," it said.

The French millers’ association said they were also shipping 500 tonnes of wheat flour to Lebanon as a donation from their stocks. A first consignment of 250 tonnes left the southern French port of Toulon on Sunday aboard a navy vessel, and the rest of the flour is due to be shipped from France on Tuesday, the association said in a statement.

France’s wheat growers association, meanwhile, is in talks with grain companies to assemble 25,000 tonnes of wheat to send as aid to Lebanon, its president, Eric Thirouin, said.

 

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