European Union leaders have begged those in Africa not to blame the West for the ongoing Global Food Crisis, saying that the current sanctions on Russia shouldn’t be affecting supply.
In the meantime, it appears that Italian prime minister and former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi is afraid that the West may be losing the crowd.

According to the Italian technocrat, many nations in Africa “are not on the side of the West” when it comes to its conflict in Russia, as reportedly evidenced by their votes in the United Nations.

“Winning the battle of food security for Africa is also important from a strategic point of view … because the thesis that is spread is that a possible famine would depend on sanctions,” POLITICO reports Draghi as saying.

“[I]f you lose the war on food security, there will never be any hope that these countries can come to the side of the alliance, because they will naturally feel betrayed, then whose fault is this is the least relevant issue for them,” he went on to say.


According to a report by POLITICO, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was keen to persuade senior African officials that Russia was to blame for any ongoing shortages during a summit on Tuesday.

“It’s a complete misinformation from Russia’s side [that Western sanctions are to blame], the only reason why we are struggling now with a food crisis is because of this brutal, unjustified war against Ukraine,” the Commission President said, before emphasising that she wanted to be “very clear” that Europe has “no sanctions on food and agricultural products”.

However, seemingly in response to similar assertions made by bigwigs in Brussels, African Union chairman Macky Sall said that the narrative that the EU — and not Russia — is to blame for food shortages “is out there”, with many on his continent finding the issue “very serious and alarming”.

“Vladimir Putin reasonably and on the basis of specific data explained the real reasons for the difficulties in food supplies, which were the result of the erroneous economic and financial policies of Western countries, as well as the anti-Russian sanctions they imposed,” a Kremlin statement published last weekend read.



https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/03/global-food-crisis-eu-bigwigs-beg-africa-not-to-blame-them-for-chronic-shortages/

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