Only 16 African leaders are expected to attend the Russia-Africa summit
last week that it was “a stab [in] the back at global food security prices and disproportionately impacts countries in the Horn of Africa.”
That access has not come. To placate countries struggling with food shortages, Russia has been trying to offer African governments packages of free grains and fertilizers.60,000 tons Russia’s Wagner Group has been heavily involved in several African countries—including the Central African Republic, Libya, and Mali. Many autocratic governments used and continue to use Wagner forces to help maintain their own military power.
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