Egypt needs 21 million tons of wheat every year to feed those hundred and two million people. It produces less than half of that at home, 86 % of what it imports comes from russia and ukraine. The government is not only scrambling to find new suppliers right now, but also very concerned about how it's going to pay those suppliers. We will see them across the middle east and africa.
Joe Biden, among others, has called Vladimir Putin “a war criminal.” International tribunals have tried and convicted war criminals from Rwanda and Serbia: will Russia’s president suffer the same fate? The war in Ukraine will disrupt the world’s wheat market, with potentially grave political consequences in the Middle East. And three public-works projects in Mexico are stirring controversy.
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