Islamic Iran sends major aid convoy to Somalia

IRI’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has dispatched its largest batch of humanitarian aid shipment to famine-hit Somalia.

The 5000-ton consignment, comprising rice and other foodstuff, was dispatched to Somalia by sea on Friday from the Bandar Abbas port city, located 1,563 kilometers (971 miles) south of the capital Tehran.

According to head of IRCS public relations office Pouya Hajian, the twelfth humanitarian aid shipment for drought-stricken Somalia left Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport for Mogadishu’s Aden-Adde International Airport on Thursday night.

The 35-ton aid cargo included canned food, tents, legumes, rice and flour.