{"id":87560,"date":"2022-05-11T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=87560"},"modified":"2022-05-11T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T00:01:02","slug":"africa-faces-an-unprecedented-crisis-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2022\/05\/11\/africa-faces-an-unprecedented-crisis-un-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Faces an \u2018Unprecedented Crisis,\u2019 UN Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Africa Faces an \u2018Unprecedented Crisis,\u2019 UN Warns &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 9, 2022 (EIRNS)\u2014Representatives of the United Nations warned of major crises emerging in the continent of Africa due to the Western sanctions against Russia, in a press conference on May 6 in Geneva. <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> reported the UN officials said that the ongoing conflict has not only led to shortages of wheat, fertilizer and other goods, but also zooming inflation has impacted many nations, pointing out that already, commodity prices have soared\u2014with the price of sunflower and colza oil shooting up 40%. \u201cThis is an unprecedented crisis for the continent,\u201d UNDP Africa chief economist Raymond Gilpin said on May 6. \u201cWe are seeing a reduction of GDP growth on the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith the disruptions that now happen, you see an urgent situation materialize because where do these countries turn overnight for commodities?\u201d UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Africa regional director Ahunna Eziakonwa said. \u201cTensions, particularly in urban areas, low-income communities, could spill over and lead to violent protests and violent riots,\u201d he said, noting that countries holding elections this year and next year were particularly vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a signal development, domestic air travel in Nigeria is stopping completely. The Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) announced that starting on Monday, May 9, all domestic flights will be grounded, due to the soaring price of jet fuel, which has increased from 190 to 700 Nigerian naira per liter (from $0.45\/liter to almost $1.70\u2014attributed to the economic effects of the sanctions). This means that even a one-hour flight would cost about 120,000 naira ($289), a sum unaffordable for Nigerians \u201calready experiencing a lot of difficulties,\u201d said AON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Faces an \u2018Unprecedented Crisis,\u2019 UN Warns &#8212; May 9, 2022 (EIRNS)\u2014Representatives of the United Nations warned of major crises emerging in the continent of Africa due to the Western sanctions against Russia, in a press conference on May 6 in Geneva. Al Jazeera reported the UN officials said that the ongoing conflict has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":87561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,505,508,765,742,33],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-87560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-nigeria-global-diplomacy","category-sanctions","category-updates-war","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87572,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87560\/revisions\/87572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}