– South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died on December 26, 2021, aged 90, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. (FILES) In this file photo taken on AugDesmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Prize winner meets with Barack Obama, US senator for Illinois at Tutu’s offices in Cape Town. Posted on OctoAuthor Nebianet Usaini Categories Business, World News Tags food prices, World Food Prices Leave a comment on World Food Prices Fall For Sixth Straight Month – UN Full List Of Nobel Peace Prize Winners The UN warned in September that more than one million people are at risk of famine and death without humanitarian aid. The agency said 45 countries, including 33 in Africa, nine in Asia, two in Latin America and the Caribbean, and one in Europe “are in need of external assistance for food”. The FAO lowered its world cereal production forecast for this year again, with a decline of 1.7 percent expected. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.ĭry conditions in Argentina and the United States have also contributed to the increase in global cereal prices. The deal lifted a Russian blockade that has raised fears of triggering a famine in nations reliant on grains from Ukraine, one of the world’s breadbaskets. The FAO said wheat prices jumped due to “heightened uncertainty” about the continuation beyond November of a UN-brokered deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship its grains via the Black Sea. The declines more than offset a rebound in cereal prices. There were also moderate decreases in the prices of sugar, meat and dairy products. The monthly decline was driven by a “sharp fall” in the prices of vegetable oils, the United Nations agency said. The index, however, was 5.5 percent higher than in September 2021. The Food and Agriculture Organization said its price index, which tracks the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities, averaged 136.3 points in September, a 1.1 percent drop from August. World food prices have fallen for a sixth month in a row in September, UN data showed Friday, as they continued to decline since a record reached following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. – The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,061, according to figures released on August 29, 2022, by the country’s National Disaster Management Authority. A vendor gestures to a customer at a local market in Lahore on August 29, 2022, amid a big hike in prices of food items in the wake of massive floods in Pakistan.
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