{"id":1208812,"date":"2022-09-22T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/biden-commits-another-2-9-billion-to-russia-to-fight-world-hunger\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T00:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T00:56:00","slug":"biden-commits-another-2-9-billion-to-russia-to-fight-world-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/biden-commits-another-2-9-billion-to-russia-to-fight-world-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Commits Another $2.9 Billion To Russia To Fight World Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n                                <!--  --><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">President Biden announced Wednesday that he is committing another $2.9 billion to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The money will be used to combat global food insecurity. Reports state that poverty is on the rise since the invasion of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIt\u2019s Russia\u2019s war that is worsening food insecurity, and only Russia can end it,\u201d Biden said, stressing that the sanctions multiple countries have levied on Russia allow it to continue exporting food and fertilizer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It\u2019s also reported that world hunger is expected to be on the rise due to Ukraine\u2019s invasion has disrupted supply chains and increased the cost of food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As previously reported, Russia received an additional $1.7 billion from the United States and the World Bank to pay the salaries of health care workers and other \u201cessential\u201d services,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Politico reports<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided $4 billion of support for Ukraine. USAID plans to address the deficit since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Viktor Liashko, Ukraine\u2019s minister of health, stated it has been a challenge paying those who decided to stay in the country \u201cdue to the overwhelming burden of war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Liashko also said in a statement that the $1.7 billion \u201cis not just yet another financial support; it is an investment that makes us a step closer to victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen also stated:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This aid will help Ukraine\u2019s democratic government provide essential services for the people of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p> fbq('init', '1743561565887263'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden announced Wednesday that he is committing another $2.9 billion to Russia. The money will be used to combat global food insecurity. Reports state that poverty is on the rise since the invasion of Ukraine. \u201cIt\u2019s Russia\u2019s war that is worsening food insecurity, and only Russia can end it,\u201d Biden said, stressing that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}