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The war in Ukraine and the energy and food crisis
the escalation of the war in Ukraine and the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia, while major oil producers said they are facing difficulty in producing their quotas established under a supply agreement, which increased fears. Oil consuming countries on the possibility of compensating Russian supplies in the international market, in addition to the increase in tensions and armed conflicts in the Middle East, which led to a rise in oil prices by 4.1 percent, approximately 4.In this regard, the United States of America and European countries that stand by Ukraine called on members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), especially the UAE and Saudi Arabia, to increase crude oil production faster after prices rose above $100 a barrel, while the United States maintains its Its oil reserves are to meet the challenges of the future in an attempt to exhaust the Arab oil reserves, and the war in Ukraine clearly revealed the dependence of Arab countries on capitalist countries, especially in the field of food.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in The Swamp
What will the Arab countries do with the food crisis imposed by the Ukraine war?
. Everyone is now warning of a global food crisis that will hit many regions of this world due to the Russian war on Ukraine and the dependence on grain supplies coming mainly from both sides, and even started talking about a famine that will occur in certain regions, the most important of which is Africa. The latest of these shouts came from the Director-General of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, when she said unequivocally that “the war in Ukraine means hunger in Africa,” but not only Africa is threatened with severe repercussions, but many other regions even in Europe, as it is a major country like France. Its president declares that "we are about to enter into an unprecedented food crisis" at a time when Europeans are currently facing a significant increase in the prices of various agricultural products, but it is certain that the repercussions will be more severe and catastrophic for Africa and the Middle East. The warnings did not stop at people's livelihood in these areas, but extended to the United Nations Secretary-General saying that "the world will witness a storm of famine and a collapse of the global food system." Such talk was accompanied by a worrying warning that this would inevitably lead not only to difficult humanitarian conditions there, but would certainly be accompanied by unrest and political turmoil whose extent no one knows from now. If Europe is currently searching with all effort for specific exits for such a possibility, as the French President called at the recent G7 summit of the need to go to search for the best and fastest ways to develop a collective plan that seeks to raise agricultural production in Europe, then we are in Africa and in our countries Arab countries are affected more than others. We have seen nothing but an expression of fear without moving a finger, even though the food threat came to it, accompanied by the rise in energy prices, so two calamities met with it, not just one. The paradox here is that agricultural and food experts in the European Union are currently complaining about the absence of a clear and solid European agricultural vision before this crisis, and they point out that Europe does not possess a reliable strategic reserve of grain (Germany is almost the only one with such reserves) at a time when countries were Like China or India, it is working strongly in this direction, and the result is that China has a 9-month stockpile, while the European Union has only a 36-day stockpile. And if this is the situation of an organized bloc like the European Union, then what will the situation be in some Arab countries?! In the list of the top 10 importers of wheat in the world, we find two Arab countries, Egypt and Algeria, where Egypt is the largest importer and consumer of wheat in the world, as it imports annually more than 13 million tons, or more than two-thirds of its needs of this strategic commodity. Russia and Ukraine constitute the source of about 85 percent percent of the imported quantities. Although a country such as Algeria, which is considered among the largest importers of soft wheat in the world, has France as a major supplier of this material, and deals to provide the required quantities of wheat with about 20 countries, it is also concerned about the possible disruption of Russian wheat that returned to its markets after A break of about five years. As for Morocco, which is the third consumer of wheat in Africa, after Egypt and Algeria, and is among the ten countries in the world that import the most grain, it is no less disturbed than others, as Ukraine and Russia come in second and third, after France, among the exporters of soft wheat to the Kingdom, while Canada ranks The first place among its suppliers of durum wheat. Perhaps Tunisia is among the most affected, especially as it is already experiencing a severe financial crisis with delays in the payment of salaries and a shortage of basic foodstuffs such as grain, sugar, oil and some medicines. What makes the situation worse is the deep political crisis there and the state of denial of its president, who believes that many of the country’s problems are due to conspiracy against him, to the extent that the shortage of foodstuffs brought him back to monopoly, although he does not explain everything, especially since some ships loaded with grain have turned back. From Tunisian ports because the state did not have the ability to pay, in a dangerous precedent that carries very frightening omens about the future. The political cost of all of the above is currently unknown, especially in both Egypt and Tunisia, with rising prices and more suffocation of people in their livelihood. Do not forget that both of them lived in the eighties of the last century major popular uprisings called the bread uprisings after the increase in their prices. As for reminding most Arab countries that a country like Sudan would have been the safe food basket for all of them, if there was vision and insight, there is no point in talking about it..
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Turkish diplomacy in the Ukrainian crisis
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has ended an official visit to Ukraine and Russia. This visit was preceded by a meeting between the two countries' foreign ministers and the Turkish Foreign Minister in Antalya, in an attempt to intensify diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. Amidst the polarization between the Russian camp and the Ukraine camp backed by Western countries, Turkey represents the group of countries that have irrevocable interests with both parties.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Ukraine to where?
First of all, it must be pointed out that the Palestinian people and the Arab nation as a whole - with the exception of the apostate Arabs - can never provide support to the person of the Ukrainian president, who supported and encouraged the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, the demolition of residential buildings and the killing and displacement of children, the elderly and women, for personal gain. cramped. Once again, for narrow personal gain, the Ukrainian president took all the decisions that opened the door wide to the Russian attack on Ukraine, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian people. But we undoubtedly stand with the Ukrainian people, because we believe in the words of Martin Luther King, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
Greetings to all war correspondents
A British photographer who had just returned from Ukraine told me how he spent more than two weeks there in great concern between his personal safety and following up on the conditions of his wife, who had left her alone with their infant son, and then she contracted Corona. Nevertheless, he is a lucky photographer, not only because he was working in the regions of western Ukraine that are less militarily hot, but because he did not stay there for a long time after which he returned safely to his family, and this is not always the amount of those who go to cover wars.
By Zernouh.abdo4 years ago in Confessions
