The food poverty in Africa between 40 and 60% by 2022equivalent to three or four million extra people going hungry, mainly because of the Ukrainian war.

The increase is also due to a “structural situation” regarding the cultivation system and the international food market, according to the conclusions of the “Africa Report” of the Spanish foundation Alternativas, presented this Thursday.

Vicente Palacio, Director of Foreign Policy at Alternatives, pointed out that Europe should play a bigger role in this.

There are no reliable numbers, but We are talking about tens of millions of people affected by the situation of food povertywhich no longer only affects countries that traditionally suffer from it, such as Eritrea or Ethiopia, but has also spread to places like Tunisia, Egypt or even Morocco,” he explains.

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According to Palacio, this also influences bigger migration flows “At a geopolitical moment of great change, which concerns everyone and in which a material commitment, investment and assistance in the digital and green transition of these countries must be maintained.”

He defended that Spain’s biennial presidency of the European Union, which begins on July 1, should serve for Spain to bring about an important change in the European pact on asylum and migration, which has not yet been concluded.

You think you need one “human dimension not only supported by the externalization of borders”, but to help the countries of origin.

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The analyst and president of the think tank Puerta de África, Viviane Ogou, pointed out that the Alternatives report shows that Africa is emerging on the international stage and is no longer an instrument of powers.

According to him, the African continent is beginning to use the struggle of powers and all the tools at its disposal “to assert itself and realize its interests”, which will change the way Africa relates to the world and with those powers .

“We are finding a wide variety of countries diversifying their service providers, both military and corporate, that were previously concentrated in the European Union and the United States,” he explained.

Now “there is a big opening to Russia, although not only, and also to China or the Middle East,” said Ogou, who stated that the era when the main trading partners were the old European metropolises of the colonial era was over.

“We will see transformation processes at different speeds depending on the country, the region and the dynamics taking place,” concludes Ogou.