Will Africa Finally Trade With Itself?

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Ukraine and Russia together are the most important wheat producing region on the planet. Together the two countries account for about 40% of global wheat exports. The invasion means that the problem moves from the high cost of wheat to finding wheat through more expensive alternative sources like France and Portugal.

As things stand, one in every three of the biggest importers of wheat from Russia or Ukraine are African countries, with Egypt as the biggest spender, spending more than $4 billion annually to feed its 100million population. The other big African importers are Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria which imports mostly from France.

But an equally intriguing problem for Africa is that European Union and US sanctions present major compliance issues for African governments which do business with Russia. The involvement of Russian players complicates the very survival of banks, companies or governments who have no choice but to comply with US sanctions. Like China, Russian trade and investment has also been increasing in Africa, and like China it has multiplied bilateral deals with African countries from $8 billion in 2015 to $20 billion in 2021.

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[frankkongossa]

Africa should not be part of this war. We need to completely separate from Europe and focus on ourselves.

[placesandspaces]

What I care about is Africa forming an intracontinental military, becoming more self sufficient in food and goods production, ridding itself of colonial education systems and much, much more related to what happens for our people.

[johndoeiii]

*Ukraine invaded:*
➡️ UN, NATO: _Illegal._

*Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, etc, invaded:*
➡️ UN, NATO: _Legal._

[calc]

Infrastructure in Africa needs to be improved to facilitate intra-African trade. It's unfortunate outsiders are developing commercial agriculture in Africa. They will be the ones to capture the added values from the product and skills developments.

[marmotarbiter]

As a westerner, this economic perspective is fascinating and something I never thought about. Africa’s geopolitical power is going to grow in the coming decades and this has the potential to be a component of that.

[ronaldmadziro]

Pan Africanism is a must, we must do for our own and push to be self sufficient. Its good Mali kicked out the French, they were never good for Africa except causing Wars and poverty.Many African youths of today are taking up farming and improving their methods, so I believe we are on the right track, let's stat focused and avoid distractions.

[Biobele]

Africa shouldn't care; instead Nigeria should instead hurry up that giant oil Refinery and the giant gas pipeline to Europe to take advantage of the increase in oil and gas prices across the world.
Other African countries who can should start growing more wheat to make up for the exit of Russian wheat and profit form the heightened price of wheat.

[MsWildberry]

Blessings Risen. Africa needs to get in a position where they are not dependent on the West for food.
OneLove and Tuko Pajoma

[A.Mayflower]

I just wanted to apologize over my lack of comments on recent videos. I have watched (and adored) all of them.

I’ve just been very stressed recently as I was partly raised in the former Soviet republic of Georgia 🇬🇪 and the tensions with Ukraine, although not directly effecting me where I am now, have made me fear for my community and friends in the country

I love your videos and keep up the amazing work :>

[luisnation]

What Russia wants is exactly what should happen in Africa, let us unite so we also become a superpower..

[dgd]

I'm from the caribbean and it hurts to see that africa still continues to struggle despite sharing the same history as the caribbean. The African union needs to create a policy similar to that of the OECS. In the Eastern Caribbean we use one currency, have close ties with each other and can live and work freely in between those states. I hope to one day see the African union create a model like that.

[cel]

Africa Should be growing food to export. Africa must want foreigners back in Africa..

[el-yanno]

Belarus isn‘t in the NATO. It‘s an Allies of Russia

[alhagiebabamalikkah]

I always thought your page was Afrocentric but clearly you still getting your facts from the west,
Africa should start growing wheat Rice and sugar in masses I’m tired of world politics threatening our food security

[tombehrens]

Good point! I was always thinking that Rwanda would be a good spot for a solar energy and chip research and production cluster. They could import most of the necessary resources from the DRC. It would than be also easier to comprehend who mined the resources to prevent child labour.

[ReinaAfricana]

We should mind our business and deal with our own problems.

[yatouschannel]

Such an amazing channel! I love all of your content.

[dee]

So this just shows we need to work together with each other more and not depend on the west.

[ReignRealm]

From🇺🇸, Remember the earth is supposed to be going green, with electric cars. So Refine the oil sell it for high prices during the war, use the money for education, craftsmanship, infrastructure, science and tech. Rely on S.T.E.M Mostly to make money & be leaders. S.T.E.M means Science, Technology, Engineering, Math !!

[Calmzat]

Bangladesh & South Sudan are embarking on such farming initiatives. As countries who have experienced food insecurity I think this trend of contract farming is a win/win for both.