Emma tenywa
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The NYT ran a post relating to the Russia-ukraine crisis and claiming that it's causing hikes in prices in east Africa.
This is entirely not true, as the claim says. East africa has no major trade dealings with Russia or Ukraine. Basically Russia only sells us three things in bulk, that's ammunition, fertilizers and mybe oil(which the EAC gets indirectly even) the major staple food imported here is rice, which is imported from thailand, Vietnam and pakistan
Here, drought is a perennial problem and each year it gets longer,hunger is a common problem in war torn regions here and rural regions there's basically no heavy dependency on crops from those two countries,neither are they among the top trade partners.
This is entirely not true, as the claim says. East africa has no major trade dealings with Russia or Ukraine. Basically Russia only sells us three things in bulk, that's ammunition, fertilizers and mybe oil(which the EAC gets indirectly even) the major staple food imported here is rice, which is imported from thailand, Vietnam and pakistan
Here, drought is a perennial problem and each year it gets longer,hunger is a common problem in war torn regions here and rural regions there's basically no heavy dependency on crops from those two countries,neither are they among the top trade partners.