The Geopolitical and Geo-Economic Implications of the Ukraine War on Africa

Hard Question and Policy Dilemmas?

Abstract

The Baker Institute International Symposium: The War in Ukraine, October 22, 2022.

Mehari Maru, in this piece, discusses the implications of the Ukraine War on Africa as a continent along with its individual countries. Some of these implications include food security across the continent, climate change and its effects, water security, and the political power roles of Africa, Ukraine, and Russia. The ways in which the countries of Africa are responding to this crisis and how different these responses look is also detailed by Maru. Finally, Maru discusses voting behavior, and the power Africa holds in the United Nations.