How the Russia-Ukraine conflict impacts security in Horn of Africa

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Compounding the Horn of Africa’s food security crisis, the war has heightened Africa’s vulnerability to rising costs of fuel. PHOTO | FILE

What you need to know:

  • In recent decades, the Horn, as elsewhere in Africa, has become increasingly dependent on grain cereals from Russia and Ukraine, which collectively supply roughly 30 per cent of the world’s wheat