• Customers purchase fresh produce from vendors at the Adjame vegetable market in the Plateau district of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, on May 16. Surging international food prices will hit Africa’s economies the hardest and may trigger social unrest if governments fail to cushion the blow, according to a report by Oxford Economics Africa. | BLOOMBERG
    Customers purchase fresh produce from vendors at the Adjame vegetable market in the Plateau district of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, on May 16. Surging international food prices will hit Africa’s economies the hardest and may trigger social unrest if governments fail to cushion the blow, according to a report by Oxford Economics Africa. | BLOOMBERG
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European governments have been alarmed by a Russian disinformation campaign that seeks to deflect criticism that President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine risks leaving millions of people in Africa facing famine.

Russian diplomats have gone on a media offensive in recent months to push the narrative that sanctions, rather than Russian blockades, are causing shortages of grains and fertilizer in Africa. The public-relations onslaught shows how the monthslong war in Ukraine is becoming a global propaganda battle as food, fuel and crop-nutrient prices surge.

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