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EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell: 'This is a real war crime... If you are using hunger as a weapon of war — this has a name' (Photo: consilium.eu)

Russia, while starving Africa, threatens Lithuania

Russia's weaponisation of global food supplies was a "war crime", while its new threats against Lithuania were "worrying", the EU's foreign policy chief has said.

There was a risk "of a great famine in the world, especially in Africa" as Russia continued to block exports of Ukrainian grain, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said in Luxembourg on Monday (20 June).

If you looked at how many people risked starvation in the Horn of Africa region before the double effect of the...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell: 'This is a real war crime... If you are using hunger as a weapon of war — this has a name' (Photo: consilium.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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