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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Protests spread to Panama as inflation, gas prices strangle developing world (Daily Wire) 

July 18, 2022


Daily Wire published an article about how widespread protests have gripped Panama for weeks as residents grow frustrated over high gas prices and rising inflation. News of the protests in Panama follows a collapse of the government in Sri Lanka, which occurred as residents grew frustrated over food and fuel prices. Russia and Ukraine produce a combined 30 percent of the world’s traded wheat, according to IFPRI, leading to a rise in worldwide food prices. Roughly half of the African wheat imports come from Russia and Ukraine, with some nations importing “more than one-third of their wheat from the two countries. 

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