Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Eurobrics news portal:
Despite sanctions: Russia delivers free grain to Africa
Despite the harsh sanctions policy of the collective West, Russia is recording consistently positive or even record results in most of its economic sectors. In the agricultural and food sector, for example, Moscow achieved a historic high last year — a total harvest of almost 160 million tons of grain.
As a result, Russian exports also increased significantly: in the 2022/23 agricultural year, Russian grain deliveries abroad totaled around 60 million tons. The export of wheat, flour and wheat products is expected to amount to 45 million tonnes, which corresponds to a global market share of around 20%.
This means that the turnover of the Russian agricultural sector is also increasing. According to the TASS news agency, which refers to preliminary information from the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Russia was able to increase its income from agricultural exports by 12% to a record US$41.5 billion in the summer compared to 2021. The Ministry of Agriculture officially expects an increase to US$45 billion.
For Russia, this recovery is essentially vital after the catastrophic decline of its entire agricultural sector in the 1990s and the associated food supply crises. In this respect, the decision in Russia was correct to even manifest the guarantee of food self-sufficiency as part of the national doctrine on food security in 2010.
Thanks to billions of euros in subsidies or support programs that have since flowed to agricultural producers, a 90% self-sufficiency level for the most important staple foods in the country, as defined by the doctrine, has been guaranteed for several years, so that the Russian government is now focusing on an agricultural policy set on Export.
Free grain for African crisis countries
Countries in Africa and Asia that repeatedly struggle with food crises will benefit from this. In this regard, at the Russia-Africa Summit last July, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his intention to provide free grain as humanitarian aid to six African countries on the World Food Program list. These crisis states are Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Mali, Zimbabwe, Somalia and the Central African Republic, which were originally supposed to receive up to 50,000 tons of grain from Russia. The scope of this aid has now been increased by the Russian Foreign Ministry to 200,000 tons of wheat.
The move came after Moscow previously refused to extend the grain agreement with Turkey, Ukraine and the United Nations Organization. This deal was intended to enable exports of Ukrainian grain, food and fertilizer from Ukrainian Black Sea ports along a secure maritime corridor to countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In addition, the contract should, among other things, lift those Western sanctions that are directed against the Russian agricultural sector. This included, for example, lifting the ban on grain and fertilizer exports, lifting certain sanctions in the banking sector or on the import of agricultural machinery.
Despite the fact that Western sanctions — which curb Russian agricultural exports — remain in place, Russia is already implementing its agricultural aid promise, sending the first Russian ship with free grain to Africa in November. As Russian media recently reported, citing the Somali national news agency SONNA, a ship carrying 25,000 tons of free wheat from Russia arrived in Somalia last week.
“Somalia has received an urgently needed aid shipment of 25,000 tons of wheat from Russia to combat the consequences of floods in the country. The aid shipment, which arrived in Mogadishu on Thursday, was handed over to the Somali Disaster Management Authority (SoDMA),” it said.
Burkina Faso will be the next country to receive Russian agricultural aid. According to the Interfax agency, a delivery of 25,000 tons of wheat from Russia is expected in this African country in the first half of December. As far as wheat deliveries to Zimbabwe, Mali, Eritrea and the Central African Republic are concerned, transports are scheduled to take place by the end of the year.
In this context, the Russian Foreign Ministry said: “We are diligent and responsible in fulfilling our obligations under trade agreements for the export of agricultural products and fertilizers, as well as in humanitarian activities. We want to donate and deliver another 200,000 tons of wheat by the end of the year to six African countries.”
In addition, 20,000 tons of fertilizer have already been delivered to Malawi and 34,000 tons to Kenya. It added: “Approval for three additional deliveries is in the final stages: 23,000 tonnes for Zimbabwe, 34,000 tonnes for Nigeria and 55,000 tonnes for Sri Lanka.”
Afterword from the translator:
I don’t know about you, but to me this looks as if ALL sanctions imposed by the sanctimonious Western puppeticians have backfired dramatically. That happens when the own ideology and greed comes before the wellbeing of their own citizens, which they seem to despise and want to replace. I hope that that will backfire so badly back into their faces that the Devil will be hard-pressed to accommodate all their filthy souls afterwards.
The Russian population is on the verge of poverty and has therefore stopped reproducing. But Putin feeds blacks for free. And now these blacks are being brought to replace us. Even in our northern city, where frosts set below -30 degrees Celsius, many blacks appeared.
I hate that Botox freak!
It’s a TRAP!
The root causes of many of the world famous “African Famines” can be traced back to “free food” being shipped there from developed nations. Free food destroys local agriculture, and once local food producers are destroyed – the whole nation becomes adicted to “free food” from elsewhere – or they die of hunger.
Such was the case with the famine in Somalia, free food from western Europe suddenly stopped one day, and…
Russia seems to have taken over from where western Europe left it and make Africa dependent on Russian “foreign help”.
Our African brothers would do well not to accept such help, give man a fish/teach man to fish, etc… But since they have not seen through this “foreign help” chess game all throughout the 20th century – I doubt they will see through this now.
Shouldn’t our ” African Brothers” have figured out how to feed themselves by now ? Being Kangs take up too much time ?
Of course
Blacks can multiply now and then come to Europe
Playing checkers with a chess master…sad we r so screwed
Russia is not by any means on the verge of poverty. You’re lost in times of yore.
I know, I know, Russian generosity is Putin’s diabolical plot to destroy democracy.
Show us evidence that, aside from NATO countering defensive moves, Russia is aggressive towards any nation at all.
You’re stupid? Tell someone else, propaGANDON, I myself live in Russia in a depressed region. The income is just enough for food (a rather modest diet) and utility bills.
Truth is probably somewhere in between. US aid to Afghanistan doubled their population in 20 years, fact. Russian aid will probably do the same, but Russia is providing other aid . Russia has signed agreement to build a nuclear power plant in Mali as well as a gold processing plant.https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/mali-signs-agreement-with-russia-build-gold-refinery-2023-11-22/
The gold plant is there but has been inactive for decades as “colonial powers” could just process gold ore back home. Feeds into a narrative against the west.
Burkina Faso also signed an agreement with Rosatom for a nuclear power plant.https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-russias-rosatom-sign-agreement-nuclear-power-plant-2023-10-13/
A Nuclear power plant is being constructed in Egypt El Dabaa NPP. Russia plans an economic development zone for Russian companies there to access Africa which we know has the fastest growing populations.
Other nuclear power plant agreements have been signed.
These include agreements with Algeria (2014), Ghana (2015), Ethiopia (2019), Republic of Congo (2019), Nigeria (2012, 2016), Rwanda (2018), South Africa (2004), Sudan (2017), Tunisia (2016), Uganda (2019) and Zambia (2016). Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed with Kenya in 2016 and Morocco in 2017.
Nuclear power plants could be Russia’s Belt and Road. But as long as the plants are there Russia will supply the nuclear fuel and reprocess the nuclear waste. Russia still supplies nuclear fuel to the US as some reactors require specific grades.
Russia is the biggest producer and exporter of enriched uranium which is what goes into the reactor. Kazakhstan is the biggest producer of uranium ore.
Once Russia has built all these nuclear reactors it will control the African market forever as the reactors will require Russian grades. The US seems to be too lazy to do more work on enrichment.
Maybe this has been understood for a while? which is why we have been brainwashed against nuclear and propagandised with all this crap on wind and solar turning ourselves into beggars versus Africa?
Is Putin a genius?
And when his generosity causes Africans to breed more offspring, the excess population will NOT migrate to Russia — they will migrate to Europe and Australia.
Maybe he has factored that into his plans.
Luckily our High-court put a stop to that agreement at that time. That new reactor is sooooo expensive that South Africa would have to pay just on the interest for generations to come.
Forgot to add that we have seen this model before with printers. The printer is sold cheaply as the manufacturer plans to make money on the replacement ink. Russia can “give away” (low interest loans) the reactors if it is sure of making money on the enriched uranium.
As far as I know, MALI and Niger has its own Uranium, just like South Africa and the Congo.
Why would nations in north Africa, with almost unlimited potential solar power, need nuclear plants? They’re no use as backups, as they have to run continuously or not at all; unlike fossil fuel plants, which can tick over till needed and be brought up to full output quickly.
Because African’ts who blatantly steal anything not tied down and are corrupt to the core can’t organize a pissup in a brewery. What else would you expect from an 85 IQ or lower people?