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New York times!!

The NYT ran a post relating to the Russia-ukraine crisis and claiming that it's causing hikes in prices in east Africa.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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It fits the narrative
 
The NYT ran a post relating to the Russia-ukraine crisis and claiming that it's causing hikes in prices in east Africa.


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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.


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Yes our media is nothing but bullshit propaganda. And normal Americans do not believe this bullshit either.
 
The NYT ran a post relating to the Russia-ukraine crisis and claiming that it's causing hikes in prices in east Africa.


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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


You did a great job of aggregating numbers to establish their false narrative.
 
The NYT ran a post relating to the Russia-ukraine crisis and claiming that it's causing hikes in prices in east Africa.


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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.


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I really like your new image icon Emma - very cool!
 
The NYT ran a post relating to the Russia-ukraine crisis and claiming that it's causing hikes in prices in east Africa.


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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.


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This is why places like this are important. We can get real info from real people. Thank you for this info.

Can you educate us on the avatar? Like said above. Bad ass
 
Aha! The avatar is of a Zulu warrior in full cultural war regalia. They are ofcourse the synthetic version, not the original cheeter and leopard skins.

I read a book about an ivory hunter's travels all over Africa in the late 1800s - early 1900s. He talked about coming upon a large walled off city in west-central Africa, near what is Cameroon today...he was greeted by knights on horseback, that wore armor of arrowproof quilts. I thought that was cool as shit & had no idea there was stuff like that in Africa only about 100 years ago.

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I read a book about an ivory hunter's travels all over Africa in the late 1800s - early 1900s. He talked about coming upon a large walled off city in west-central Africa, near what is Cameroon today...he was greeted by knights on horseback, that wore armor of arrowproof quilts. I thought that was cool as shit & had no idea there was stuff like that in Africa only about 100 years ago.

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So you are saying Wakanda is real?
 
I read a book about an ivory hunter's travels all over Africa in the late 1800s - early 1900s. He talked about coming upon a large walled off city in west-central Africa, near what is Cameroon today...he was greeted by knights on horseback, that wore armor of arrowproof quilts. I thought that was cool as shit & had no idea there was stuff like that in Africa only about 100 years ago.

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Awesome power look!
 
I read a book about an ivory hunter's travels all over Africa in the late 1800s - early 1900s. He talked about coming upon a large walled off city in west-central Africa, near what is Cameroon today...he was greeted by knights on horseback, that wore armor of arrowproof quilts. I thought that was cool as shit & had no idea there was stuff like that in Africa only about 100 years ago.

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I remember watching Shaka Zulu on tv as a kid cause I got to see boobies and not get in trouble.
 
I read a book about an ivory hunter's travels all over Africa in the late 1800s - early 1900s. He talked about coming upon a large walled off city in west-central Africa, near what is Cameroon today...he was greeted by knights on horseback, that wore armor of arrowproof quilts. I thought that was cool as shit & had no idea there was stuff like that in Africa only about 100 years ago.

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That must be an interesting story, haven't read about it. Would you share some more info please
 

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