U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has noted that food, fertiliser and seeds are exempt from the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and many others on Russia.In Cameroon, baker Sylvester Ako says hes seen his daily clientele drop from 300 customers a day to only 100 since bread prices jumped 40 because of the lack of wheat imports.
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It costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia’s capital.
Nearly all of the wheat sold in Somalia comes from Ukraine and Russia, which have halted exports through the Black Sea since Moscow invaded its neighbor on Feb. 24.
The timing could not be worse: The UN has said that an estimated 13 million people are facing severe hunger in the Horn of Africa region as a result of a persistent drought.
Abdirahman has been trying to make