FILE PHOTO: Workers prepare bags of food aid for distribution by the World Food Programme, part of the EU and U.S. backed 'Grain from Ukraine' initiative at a warehouse in Nouakchott, Mauritania, November 19, 2024. WFP/ Nardjesse Rahmoune/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) -On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary Russia.
Kyiv's new embassy in the country's capital Nouakchott - among eight it has opened in Africa since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine - has overseen food aid deliveries to refugees from neighbouring Mali, embassy and aid officials say.
