War, Pandemic and Drought: The Perfect Storm for Africa.

At the outbreak of the war between Ukraine and Russia, the food situation of the African population, especially those in western areas, such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger Mali and Nigeria, was already compromised as long droughts had caused food prices to rise by 20%.

With the ongoing conflict, the situation has worsened further as many countries they depend on Russia and Ukraine for grain imports and the lack on the market leads to an exponential increase in prices and the difficulty in finding food.

The dependencies of these countries, for imports of wheat from the two countries in conflict, are between 30 and 50%, leaving little space to find new suppliers for such considerable quantities.

Another problem that adds to that of food shortages is the probable reduction of financial aid to poor countries as many states could shift financial resources, earmarked for international cooperation, to help Ukraine and the large number of displaced people that are pouring into Europe.

The poor, the hungry and the refugees, whether they are food or because of wars, are all the same and that is why we must maintain a broad vision of aid worldwide.

Automatic translation. We apologize for any inaccuracies. Original article in Italian