West needs to act fast to tackle food crisis — and Moscow’s blame game (Financial Times)
Financial Times published an op-ed stating that G7 countries will outline global initiatives this month to help prevent hunger as Russia weighs on grain importers. After a meeting with Vladimir Putin last week, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, also chair of the African Union, called for the lifting of western economic sanctions against Russia. He embraced Moscow’s narrative that Russia was ready to “facilitate the export of Ukrainian cereals” and was “ready to ensure the export of its wheat and fertilizer” even though Ukrainian ports are under a Russian blockade. Senior research fellow David Laborde says, “Some countries are saying ‘we don’t care [who is to blame for the war], we just want the wheat and to feed our people.”
