female, a gender gap in space exploration. germany's 1st female astronaut, it has been waiting for years to get her turn. a private initiative is pushing to make it happen in me personally. it's just a dream. i've always had of always wanted to see the us from a distance for space starts more changed on d, w ah, this is the w news, africa coming up on the program. one year of the war in ukraine and water has done to africa. wheat, for example, has been in short supply across africa. you to the wall country, south way, dependence on it, like kenya. how struggling to get by fertilizer prices. i've also gone up

since the components come mainly from russia and ukraine. but some farmers have found a way around that they are using coll, my kneel as an alternative. and these students may be smiling in this feature about many like them. how to me, the studies behind in ukraine. now back home, the struggling to continue job education. me well as a war, rages on south africa has chosen on alignment and is odin military drills with russia and china? how do they justify that with i am eddie micah junior. welcome to the program. it's been one year since russia begun its invasion of ukraine. now, while a war in europe may seem far away from africa, the impact has been felt by many across continent of africa. we asked some in kenya

and nigeria, how the war has affected them. it's affected me emotional goes, i have a friend who over the other from the ruddy when we talked last, it was like 2 weeks. this is not an address. i did that out. so for you to war, did that it was last middle. actually it's needless or is it says less work? put crazy is have really good. now i'm looking back from there such a laser praises. they have gone up making food become such as cost for more detail because of legal has become very high. ah, you'd see at the, for example, if you had it as highly as isn't meaningful off any, it had offered this, it has become very tough for most of what a drivers, the taxi drivers, several students over of niger on or reaching out there. well,

they're schooling and out to a get their schooling johnny at to be caught. i mean, caught short, it's a loss for them. we'll be looking at all the issues raised in a bit, starting with the impact of the war on wheat consumers in africa. now, in 2020 alone, some african countries imported up to 80 percent of the wheat from either ukraine or russia. kenya, for example, used to import the fed of its total wheat supply from the 2 warren nations. but now we each producers and consumers are feeling the effects of war. our correspondent fedex marina filed this report from kenya. this is jim floor bakery in calgary, one of the rubies informal settlements before the war. they used the big up to 7000 man as his bread rolls and vans here daily. but with the ukraine wolf, which praises dabbled deliveries, what delayed quantities, the creve,

and the big items while abuse their sites. the bakery and it's tough, had to make drastic changes to stay afloat. we had to go several days without working. so you were lacking for 6, these are you fade, you are working for the for the. yeah. so units of yesterday they had to use and a, some employee or not that up even because we do do we do data events that we did we just as part of payments for it from a michael just 3 hours to the rest of nairobi, which shortage combined with higher prices would normally have meant increase in canada. but that was not the case as he depended on fat elisa supply from ukraine and russia. apple bellini b. f. a to initially will used to buy a 50 kilogram back of fertilizer at 2800 shillings. but in the recent past, we have been buying the same 50 kilogram back at 6300 shootings. so even if the buyers are coming in plenty, the cost of production is too high and as

a result of the profit margins have become very little double bond am, i will not let this own up a take which any with about 40 percent of width supply in africa, coming from russia and ukraine, experts say it's time africa stopped relying on food from outside the continent. and found alternative means to feed have most vulnerable people. economist x n. iraqi says that african countries should land lessons from this crisis we and make changes. we would want the government to do more, but have things like strategic already solves, routines like statistic. good start to get green resolves. who don't want the countries in the country in future. the daisy don't i diversify the social therefore that we don't just get which from good we can get we from identity. we must also make fleming court. so people are proud of it. and the only way to do that is to give it support or that is banks. whether the government was, if the such yoshi tubes need to keep support from us over the past year,

africans have had to fit the high price of their dependence on wheat from ukrainian trasha. i wake up call to how a far away war can heat close to home and it has, it's close to home. indeed, many analysts say that geopolitically, that war in ukraine has spread into a cold, warlike scenario. a global power struggle between ration and western powers laying out on the continent, the pressure is on to take aside. in a case, you see justice and injustice and aggression and a victim. neutrality is not an option, because then you are standing on the side of the aggression. but some african governments would rather seek a political position that works with them at home. and i brought in the lead as vote, the un general assembly 15 african nations abstained from a resolution that calls for russia and hostilities and ukraine and redraw its forces. that's nearly half of all the abstention. so why is that our correspondence?

mario mueller looks at some of the possible reasons to choose one on alignment to one africa as the continent has experienced more than enough invasion itself. so why would so many countries refuse to condemn russia on this? let's look at some potential factors. money is not a major factor. russia accounts for less than one percent of the foreign direct investment going to the continent. but there's one area where russian involvement in africa really stands out. weapons. russia was the largest army dina, to african countries in these past years supplying 44 percent of all arms in ports to the continent. a combination of friendship and military support with historical roots which run deep. these relations will formed agree, perfect. so historical moments with the confidence when many countries will emerge and of a colonial masters, each must hold. the former soviet union was agree supports with talking to many

african states, many liberation. more importantly, the soviet union provided ops, the kremlin lynx, mass, their group, wagner. in spite of the countries across the continent, the us called it a proxy force of russia's defense ministry carrying out missions strategic to moscow. this was most recently seen in molly the mommy and military john to invite the wagner group into the country to take on islamist militants. the mercenaries replaced unpopular french troops, but have since been accused of carrying out massacres, killing hundreds of civilian russian nursery as could be heading to bettina. ha. so next france says it's pulling out its soup from there to and wagner. leanne's officers have already reported they've been seen in the country. looking at fossil wasn't even in the room for that un vote. rising public opinion against western

presence has been swayed by targeted russian dis information. the u. s. state department says brushes intensified publication of this information and the use of the walk in a group across africa has spread a trail of lice and human rights abuses. these actors continue operating in africa, exploiting turbulent situations through distant formation, to sway public support for the russian government to expand its influence. russian foreign minister segue lever off toward africa 3 times in the last 8 months, taking with him a strong message. right now we know that american, british and other european delegations regularly appear in africa and demand african countries not to cooperate with the russian delegation by which the west understands the restoration by an lodge of colonial dependencies in a new form. that idea of the west having colonialist designs times with unease and

many african capitalists, feelings that their subjects of double standards and a patronizing attitude south africa is currently hosting russia in china for joint naval exercises. the u. s. has criticized the timing over the anniversary of russia invading ukraine, but the south african defense minister told npr the south africa wanted respect for its positions and if wishes it also abstained in the un vote against russia. the ukraine was shows how african countries are on a tightrope between acting independently, while at the same time, keeping the allies they want and need to help us understand the position of some african countries who abstained from condemning russia for its boy in ukraine. i am now joined by feet, my bearer foreign policy, and you politics aspects based in victoria side, africa. hello faith. thanks for joining us now. so africa did not condemn russia.

how do you justify that? thank you. any, let us festivals, american cedar, that as you are marking the one year of the russia ukraine wool so that because position on the conflict can be designed through a range of developments. and i think the, the most important starting point in this regard was the word that we saw shortly after the russian began what it called it special military operation. in march 22, a native nations general assembly, in which resorts of africa, then, abstaining in the foot to condemn risk as the gratian. interesting and when you look at the comments that are that because i'm an inch representative to the un in hurry mux highlighted the fact that so that because position was informed by a largely the, the fact that there are so you came with the kind of oversize the tension that had been given to russia,

ukraine will expand prices situations across the world that sees the united security council. so luckily it was coiling out on that fact of one kind of quality focus in double standards. but also on the other hand, it was urging more or a civic sentimental to dispute. so this idea of where he's going, in fact, in the bigger key moines in that and then folding of conversation. so attention away from the, from the because victoria that surrounded the media on set up the ok. ok so so i hear you all that is understood but some are just thinking why is it so difficult? we're talking about one country using force to invade another country to clean territory. this is i do the un charter. so why make excuses? why is it so difficult to say russia, you did the wrong thing by reading your green i contend the question to you.

the same question can be asked of the coalitions of the willing in the war in iraq and afghanistan, which also amounted to a contribution of international law. so stemming from that to where, if you want to label some, some interventions equal in others, not. then we begin to now get into the, the, to your standard. this is particularly the issue that has been raised by a number of countries in the global south or questioned, the kind of electrical rendering that has surrounded the rushing war. so this double standard issue is one that, in a sense, has he a weakened, the principle of nana line as a continental then meant an alignment movement was particularly present during the whole years. does this idea of the global countries over

a 100 countries saying they don't want to be point in the cold war between the it's 10 block in the west and look, i think as a matter of verification so that because position is not primarily neutrality, i think it's better friend using the term of strategic command alignment. i mean, that the end of the day, there were 2 sides. you can either condemn russia for invading ukraine or you can stay on the fans, or you can see, no, russia did not. for the age of cream, which will be a very interesting side. let me bring you to this point. germany is foreign minister on the nar burbock recently made this statement and i quote, a case. you see justice and injustice and aggressor and a victim neutrality is not an option, because then you are standing on the side of the aggressor. is that a fair statement? it seems to suggest with this statement that said, africa is support in russia's invasion of ukraine. what you say to that again

brings me back to the various levels of analysis that one can apply to the war. so in one sense, there's been a great sense of a position by country like south africa to this idea of being pressured into taking as taps. they deal of none, none, alignment, but they need is a justifiable foreign policy stance by all accounts. so when countries in the collective west, through such statements seem to suggest that the, the, the, almost one to use that members to push countries into taking stance, it sort of begins to attend dent on the question of foreign policy independence. and i think that's a lot of levels of countries, licks of africa wishing back against the essentially don't want to be lectured at. and when it comes to a ticket relating, some of the positions on such be on be wait, a call matters such as the russia korean. what. so it's a matter of us,

i think you're fine, but at least position and, and letting that up as an international, you know, take your, what, ok, so to rub salt in the wound, south africa is, holden joins military drills in the indian ocean with russia. and china isn't that a bit insensitive us? as you said earlier, you creams marking a year of the war with russia. i mean how insensitive i made you and what's considered insensitive was in fact it's part of the normal routine of diplomatic activities. when you look at it, a diplomacy and the kind of multi sexual variation that we see a credit based countries so by it's largely of my ticket engagements. in the same way that a lot of countries in the collective is also choose to conduct their 1000000 to which is a military exercises. when i thought that i should be given or did the same sense

of freedom of choice in determining only 22 to conduct will take it from us in the us in sensitivity. so question was, who's a few point 2 and it was ok. the military diplomacy is part of the all trust building and forging strong corporations that strategic as, as the same as in the of the country would look to, to terms of using the various instruments of its weight policy. ok, you're clearly looking at it from a point of view as a sovereign nation can make a decision on its own. so you don't feel like you need to be coerced into making a decision. some still what i do that at the end of the day, this is something bad that has happened. why not condemn it anyway? south africa is, you know, has different relations with russia because of that sort of a close ally ship. if i can see a close alliance with russia,

how come south africa help and the war in your opinion? a friend in its constitution, linda key principle of ensuring policy right from the beginning with government officials calling or a settlement through dialogue through diplomacy. at some point, we know that you've been president of the good offices of mediation in terms of meeting that. so in a sense of africa, as i did to the messaging value piece being and as a, as an offer in russia, ukraine was opposed to what we've seen happening in recent weeks, which has been an escalation of the baby. interesting. now is the correct, is it at the beginning of the conflict? seem to be digging their heels in. so you know, it's not that because of where this collision, it's a return to dialogue. they tend to talk and that is very much in line with

viewpoint about pushing for dialogue rather than than langley seeking a military solution to the conflict. ok, they barbera foreign policy on june politics expert in pretoria africa. thank you very much for your insights. thinking ah, you're watching the w news africa still to come. we meet foreigners in ghana who have learned a lesson from the war in ukraine and i'll successfully re thinking the way the rest. the war and ukraine built a heavy blow to thousands of african students who were there and were forced to flee a year later. many are still struggling to readjust to life and study sparkle. did abuse isaac ology met to medical students in gunners capital, a cra,

friends done. so can acquire live in his dream study, to become a doctor, or the prestigious cock give medical university. but to russia, invasion of you, crean changed everything. 10 aqua hard to flee back home to ghana. one year later, he still finding it hard to readjust a tedious and stressful answer at a point because emotionally, in, if, you know, if young treat yourself emotionally, you end up crying each and every day because it's not easy for them. is that something you never anticipate that that will help it the gun in government or fate to read to greet the students who left ukraine into local medical schools. but to be all for hasn't been taken up by many in our courses,

it would have been too much of a 6 back us. it didn't recognize the course which he had already completed. so he's taking part in courses the ukraine online. no, as i mean community, but i mean literally i would say it's more, it was more traumatizing that even though itself because i'm certain categories you could me your clinic, i ain. and after i repeat it or you, you like, you can only us at the i 30 solution does also fine. i saw that in the family. no. not what she had you mind is also study to become a doctor. he's one of those who did take up it please at medical school in ghana, before that, he experienced sponsored him through 5 years of studies at their book or vimeo state medical university in chinese to see. he says he enjoyed his time in ukraine and was close to finishing his degree. opting to continue his studies in ghana has

cost him time and money, or to give up the fact that and one complete school this year. and i mean complete school next year. so i was taking a year buck, so i mean that will $500.00 now, so i'm with them and that's what i had to do. do we need to sacrifice that to make a plan? so my parents had plans and this was sticking us as the buck, but i think it's quite and it's when i'm embracing it from the positive side of side of you. so i'm not thinking too much into the negative so that i don't get to affect it. in not to lose focus, but this is why said grace that they were lucky to escape the fightin. but both students also have the i regrets about retaining to ghana 10 o'clock hopes that wall and soon so he can retain to ukraine to graduate. and that's practicing, i said dr. farmers across africa,

i've suffered hides in fred eliza prizes as their components come mainly from russia and ukraine. and this has affected their crop yields. rather is a way out in ghana, most farmers. and i'll turn into my niel as an alternative. the rush for the dung is that proving profitable, did abuse maxwell souk report from gunners. ne, in town of bon political manuel has become the proverbial cash cow for cattle brita immortal. also, mano, he used to have more down than he knew what to do it by russia's war in ukraine, created a show to your 5th lie. this saw the death day pauses. his head leaves behind, announced selling like hot cakes, learned a bad, there's a rush on my manure. i can't even meet the demand from the farmer's summer already ordering now well ahead of the season rested during the ploughing period. if you don't manage things well, you can easily go wrong and then not yield the results. gonna like min african

countries, usually impulse large quantities of ingredients for chemical fertilizers from russia. how river is ward disruptive supplies, and farmers are forced to sake for whom gruen solutions steep robs, like miss depend, heavily on catalyzes and they have suffered a decline in the yields a large number of small world of high missing gonna announce 10 into animal manuel produced by livestock bridges, as an alternative, dis, farmer says it is a viable substitute for chemical fertilizers, which are become unaffordable. arossi, i feel would happen when a war in ukraine is not, are yet anna inorganic fertilizer. it will remain these years. but now that's why i have to be prepared by applying them under now. he laughed while we're waiting for the rail law. even if i don't get chemical fertilizers, i won't be bothered to have to the cook with cook. i'm the chemical that lays out guns agricultural policy is yet to optimize the integration of livestock and crops

. and experts, one that manuel can only be a stop gap measure for widespread fertilizer use. if you're one of them, more likely to be more expensive dang, of benefit letter because fess the quantities and on the and then secondly, the work it will require to be able to set lies live, tax of land is just not possible. so is a long term and man, as well as currently going on is a copious strategy, but cattle brita, immoral also money isn't just coping his hoping to increase the size of his head looking to make more money from the constant reach supply did deliver ever d and that's how we wrap it up from all of our stories. go to d, w dot com slash africa. visit us on facebook and twitter, all eyes our nigeria, as the country decides who it's next lead, i will beat. stay tuned to our programming house. we bring you the latest on the

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