UN officials warn of impact on Horn of Africa if Black Sea grain deal ends
An end to the Black Sea grains deal would hit the Horn of Africa hard, aid officials said on Monday, warning that another hike in food prices would add to the tens of millions of people facing hunger.
Famine in parts of the Horn of Africa was averted this year as the rainy season, projected to fail for a fifth consecutive year, beat expectations. But aid officials say some 60 million people are still food insecure in seven east African countries and worry about the impact of a further blow. "A non renewal of the Black Sea initiative would absolutely hit Eastern Africa very, very hard," Dominique Ferretti, World Food Programme Senior Emergency Officer, told a Geneva briefing. "There"s a number of countries that depend on Ukraine"s wheat and without it we would see significantly higher food prices." Brenda Lazarus from the Food and Agriculture Organization, said that diets in Somalia, Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea were focused on wheat and any change would be "very slow".
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