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WFP said this was the seventh strike on clearly marked WFP facilities or vehicles in three months.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because export bans, war-blocked shipping lanes and drought are keeping bread and rice prices high and leaving near-record numbers of people in acute hunger, especially across Africa and the Middle East.
Part of the monitored dynamic Global Grain Security · VUCA INDEX 66/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 3JUL 18
kyivpost.com — Russian Strikes Target Odesa Port Infrastructure and Foreign Vessels, 1 Dead
"Richard Ragan, the WFP representative in Ukraine, stated that this is the seventh instance in three months where clearly marked WFP facilities or vehicles have been struck by drones."
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from kyivpost.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 18.
Extracted JUL 18; approved JUL 18 at 0.60.
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