“With each passing hour, two things are increasingly clear: First – it keeps getting worse. Second – whatever the outcome, this conflict will have no winners, only losers.”
Guterres announced an additional 40 million dollars from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund to ramp up assistance for the most vulnerable in the region but pointed to the growing global dimension to this conflict, particularly on the developing world. “Even before the conflict, developing countries were struggling to recover from the pandemic – with record inflation, rising interest rates and looming debt burdens. Their ability to respond has been erased by exponential increases in the cost of financing. Now their breadbasket is being bombed. Russia and Ukraine represent more than half of the world’s supply of sunflower oil and about 30% of the world’s wheat. Ukraine alone provides more than half of the World Food Programme’s wheat supply.
“The FAO’s global food prices index is at its highest level ever. 45 African and least developed countries import at least one-third of their wheat from Ukraine or Russia – 18 of those countries import at least 50%. This includes countries like Burkina Faso, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. We must do everything possible to avert a hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system.
He also called the raising of the alert level of Russian nuclear forces a bone-chilling development – adding that the prospect of a nuclear conflict was now back in the realm of possibility.Share article
UN you are good in talking... but action nothing
The UN quite since 2014, they must keep their peace for good...they sponsored this catastrophe with their silence when Ukraine killed innocent Russians in the Donbas regions. Ukraine must be like Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc., so that the EU & US can see their hypocrisy.
USA your silence is deafening are u so of Putin,luckily Africa is not colonised anymore there will no more sinking Mendi fighting war we don't even know
Why should we care as africans these people are keep segregating even in war. Some of them they call africa s*hole I mean we are less humans to them, let's mind our own business.
Let putin finish his work we are OK in Africa😎