• <a fr-original-style="" href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-politics-africa-4d0fbfe2b121a4d015be09407e883a95" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Russian President Vladimir Putin</a> said he is ready to support the smooth export of Ukrainian grain via the country's Black Sea ports in a meeting with the African Union, where Senegal’s President and chairman Macky Sall said the war and Western sanctions had worsened the food shortages in Africa.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What happened: African countries imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020, and wheat prices rose around 45% as a result of the supply disruption. President Sall added that a grain shortage could affect 1.4 billion people and trigger mass migration.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On a related note: The EU’s Mediterranean nations called for an end to the bloc's “voluntary” solidarity principle for migration with demands to install concrete measures instead. Interior Ministers from Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Spain <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/05/eu-interior-ministers-concrete-measures-needed-as-hunger-might-bring-more-migrants-from-af" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">concluded talks</a> in Venice amid fears that a grain shortage could lead to an increase in the numbers of refugees from Africa.</li></ul>

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