Macky in Moscow to try to save Africa from famine

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It is to carry the voice of Africa on the war in Ukraine that Macky Sall, president of the African Union, goes to Moscow,

On the spot, he will try to convince the Russian president, Vladimir Putin to release the cereals

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this trip by Macky, accompanied by the chairman of the AU Commission, Mahamat Faki, means that Africa prefers to engage in a frank dialogue with Russia and Ukraine to end the war.

The African Union says it is in favor of a negotiated solution to put an end to the conflict. 

 Africa seems to be only an ant in this battle of elephants.

And there is little chance that Macky Sall and Moussa Mahamat Faki will succeed in their noble mission. 

 'carrying the voice of Africa': this is no doubt a noble mission, but does the black continent really have a voice in this respect where even the Nations united fail to impose themselves, leaving the European Union and the United States, both judges and parties, to agitate as best they can in the face of the impassive Vladimir Putin who sees himself as the new Tsar, dreaming of the past greatness of the Empire?

We will have understood it,

L'Observateur Paalga, this 48-hour stay in Moscow is more to mark the occasion than to obtain results and firm commitments.

One could even see in it a form of diplomatic gesticulation on the part of the president of a country which had been careful, on March 2, to vote for the UN resolution which required Russia to 'immediately cease to use force against Ukraine'. 

 how far will the voice of Macky Sall, and therefore of Africa, go, while the master of the game, Vladimir Poutine remains deaf to all calls and seems not to fear any sanction, he, who obviously prepared his war well?

(…) In any case,

WakatSéra, whatever the outcome of Macky Sall's mission of good offices to end the war in Ukraine, the fact is quite rare, not to say unprecedented, that Africa engages in mediation in the West to silence guns.

It is rather the opposite that Africans see in interference, when it does not suit them!

Provided that the great Russian cold does not freeze the ardor of the mediator from the land of the sun and Teranga, the legendary land of hospitality. 

'The situation is worrying,' warned Macky Sall

'This crisis particularly affects our countries because of their strong dependence on Russian and Ukrainian wheat production'

 While the UN fears 'a hurricane of famines' in African countries which import more than half of their wheat from Ukraine or Russia, the current president of the African Union urged the 27 to do everything 'to release available stocks. 

Le Point Afrique

 Europeans keep repeating that Western sanctions against Moscow are 'not responsible' for the tensions on the food markets.

For the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, Russia is in the process of 'taking world cereals hostage'.

Illustration: in addition to blockading ports, Moscow is “deliberately bombarding warehouses and fields

who accused President Vladimir Putin of using “hunger and grain to exercise power. power'.

Le Point Afrique

The soaring prices of fertilizers - mainly produced in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - could cause a collapse 'of 20 to 50%' of cereal yields in Africa this year. 

the specter of famine hangs over the Horn of Africa.

Armed conflicts have aggravated the deleterious effects of global warming in the region, and plunged entire populations, including millions of displaced persons, into a food emergency.

Their extreme vulnerability is now accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine.