African countries are acutely affected by the growing crisis, which has sent prices of grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertiliser soaring.

The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin who is meeting African Union leaders, will tell them that Moscow is not to blame for the growing food crisis affecting their continent.

State TV showed Putin greeting Senegalese President Macky Sall, chairman of the AU, and Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the AU Commission, at the start of talks in the southern Russian resort of Sochi on Friday.

Russia’s army has seized much of Ukraine’s southern coastline in the course of its 100-day war and its warships control access to the country’s Black Sea ports. But it continues to blame Ukraine and the West for the resulting halt in Ukrainian grain exports.

African countries are acutely affected by the growing crisis, which has sent prices of grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertiliser soaring.

Russia and Ukraine account for nearly a third of global wheat supplies, while Russia is also a key global fertiliser exporter and Ukraine is a major exporter of corn and sunflower oil.

Moscow has blamed the situation on all the naval mines floating near Ukrainian ports and on Western sanctions which are hitting its own grain and fertiliser exports because of the impact on shipping, banking and insurance.

Russia has said it is ready to allow vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine in return for the lifting of some sanctions, a proposal that Ukraine has described as “blackmail”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/3/kremlin-denies-blame-for-mounting-food-crisis-as-putin-meets-african-union-leaders

Apart from the fertilizer that I saw there, what else could make this affect a country like Nigeria?
The wheat- how many households in Nigeria eat wheat? Cooking oil and grains- are they not produced here? Nigeria should not put mouth in this discission o.

Let's settle Nigerian problem first

prospero5:
Apart from the fertilizer that I saw there, what else could make this affect a country like Nigeria?
The wheat- how many Nigerian households eat wheat? Is cooking oil and grains not produced here? Nigeria should not put mouth in this discission o.

Semolina, noodles, spaghetti, e.t.c. are all from wheat.

prospero5:
Apart from the fertilizer that I saw there, what else could make this affect a country like Nigeria?
The wheat- how many Nigerian households eat wheat? Is cooking oil and grains not produced here? Nigeria should not put mouth in this discission o.

Wheat does a lot

As usual Buhari will blame everything but himself

ThreeEyedRaven:
As usual Buhari will blame everything but himself

If not that African leaders are useless, Africa has the most fertile land in the world, food shortage should normally not be an issue.

Clueless govt always blaming it on others

And Bubu is blaming everything on Putin
Clueless APC govt

Dependable africa

We are not yet independent..
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Old Fools Ruling Africa

leofab:
Dependable africa

Are you sure that Africa is dependable?

Always at the bottom, talking about food

It's better to depend on ourselves.

RichProminent:
Are you sure that Africa is dependable?

cheap raw and human resources

leofab:
cheap raw and human resources

Is that what made them dependable?