The Joe Biden administration this week announced hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency assistance for African and other countries facing a food crisis while using its United Nations platform to blame Russia.
This May the United States is making food security the focus of its month-long Security Council presidency for the second year in a row. As part of a “week of action,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the foreign ministers of 10 African countries on 18 May to tackle what he called “the greatest global food security crisis of our time” before leading a ministerial debate on conflict and food security the next day.
