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Africa is preparing to pay a heavy price for the war launched by Russia in Ukraine. The continent is already suffering from the economic fallout from this conflict. Soaring food and oil prices are raising fears of worsening poverty across the continent. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned of “a hurricane of famines”. 18 African countries and least developed countries import at least 50% of their wheat from Ukraine or Russia.
You will hear the analysis of Bruno Parmentier, specialist in agro-food issues, and Grégoire Brou Director of Action against Hunger in Burkina Faso by Kalidou Sy. Finally we will go to South Africa to see the‘impact for vegetable and wheat farmers in South Africa.
At least 21 people, including two police officers, were killed on Wednesday in an attack by suspected jihadists on a bus and a truck in the Tillabéri region in southwestern Niger, near Burkina Faso.
Editor: Célia Caracena