23 Aug 2023 3 minute read
... in 2019. South African government/ Flickr The war in Ukraine is well into its second year, many thousands have ... to fuel. Many countries on the continent have relied on Ukraine and Russia as sources of wheat, fertilizer and other ... per cent of the wheat consumed is imported from Russia and Ukraine . African countries have been courted by both Russian ...
25 Jul 2023 5 minute read
... on food imports, has been battered by Covid-19 and war in Ukraine. The cost-of-living crisis is felt throughout ...
12 Jun 2023 6 minute read
... In a nod to Russia, Israel has repeatedly failed to supply Ukraine with advanced air defence systems while equally ... relations with existing allies. Russia’s occupation of Ukraine has heightened European anxiety about energy ...
29 May 2023 4 minute read
... food crises around the world, particularly with the war on Ukraine, are you concerned that there will be a renewed ... to push GMOs. They’ve tried so hard to use the Ukraine war to roll back Europe’s farm-to-fork strategy ...
3 Apr 2023 4 minute read
... of soldiers (many recruited from Russian prisons) in the Ukraine war. The group has been most visible in the Russian ... and in the fighting since 2014 in the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine. Wagner was initially founded by Russian military ...
17 Mar 2023 5 minute read
... growing populations. Even Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine did much less to disrupt global food supplies than is ...
28 Feb 2023 5 minute read
... region on the country’s eastern border with Ukraine , broke away during the dissolution of the Soviet ... military supervision at the border. The war in nearby Ukraine, meanwhile, has led to a significant influx of ...
4 Jan 2023 5 minute read
... in just three months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There was a tricky moment in February 2022, when ... giant. But as the bombs and missiles keep falling on Ukraine, BP shareholders – mainly big US investment funds ... energy company with imported coal . When Russia invaded Ukraine and coal prices hit an all-time peak, his personal ...
21 Dec 2022 8 minute read
... South. The pandemic caused economic chaos. Since the Ukraine war, the increased cost of key goods – food, fuel ...
4 Nov 2022 7 minute read
... of geopolitical rivalries unleashed by the war in Ukraine, a context that is not amenable to co-operation ... and again, at the time of writing, as war rages in Ukraine). As developments like this take place across the ...