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International institutions are alarmed by the world food situation! The World Bank releases more than eleven billion euros to finance water supply or irrigation projects.

Cereal prices were already very high before the war in Ukraine, but the blocking of the Black Sea ports further aggravates the situation. The country usually accounts for around 10% of world wheat exports.

The financial institution specifies that it also has unused funds (regarding eighteen billion euros) for projects directly linked to food and nutritional security problems. The total aid therefore represents almost thirty billion euros.

This aid will however be insufficient: the Secretary General of the United Nations insists on the need to unblock the situation in Ukraine. “_There will be no lasting solution to the food crisis without reintegrating Ukrainian production into world markets, as well as food and fertilizers produced by Russia and Belarus – despite the war._Russia must allow the safe and secure export of grain stored in Ukrainian ports. And Russian food products and fertilizers must have full access to world markets without indirect obstacles“ detailed Antonio Guterres.

The World Bank’s assistance will be spread over the next fifteen months and will mainly benefit countries in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central and South Asia. The World Bank fears consequences worse than during the food price crisis of 2007-2008 and prepares to intervene on several aspects : “_We will support and protect the poorest households by strengthening safety nets. Our support will help farmers prepare for the next planting season. _It will also be used to avoid export restrictions and maintain food circulation and trade, to avoid price hikesexplique Martien Van Nieuwkoop, director “agriculture et alimentation” de la Banque global.

To stabilize the markets, the financial institution asks countries to declare what their production will be. It also calls for “concerted efforts” to increase energy and fertilizer supplies and help farmers increase planted areas and yields.

French justice is looking for the father of a ten-year-old girl found asphyxiated at her home last Thursday in Haute-Savoie. She issued an international arrest warrant.

It was the older brother of the girl, born in 2011, who discovered the body last Thursday at the family home, located in Veigy-Foncenex, a town located on the Swiss border, announced the public prosecutor of Annecy, Line Beanie.

The child obviously did not die from the fire but from mechanical asphyxiation.

Line Bonnet, public prosecutor of Annecy

The house had been partially burnt down. The autopsy, however, concluded that “the child clearly did not die from the fire but from mechanical asphyxia,” said the magistrate.

The father, “unreachable since the evening of the facts”, has been actively sought following the discovery of the body. The victim’s parents were going through “a marital crisis”, according to the prosecutor.

Judicial information for “murder of a 15-year-old minor and degradation by fire”, cosaisine by two investigating judges from the criminal center of Annecy, is in the process of being opened. The investigation was entrusted to the research section of the Chambéry gendarmerie.

The ongoing primary elections confirm that Donald Trump’s grip on his party is strong, but not as total as that of Trumpism.

Tuesday was primary election day in North Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The candidacies endorsed by Trump have had mixed results, but the primaries confirm that the Trumpist populist right and adherence to the ex-president’s “big lie” over the 2020 election dominate the Republican Party.

Trump takes defeats

At Mar-a-Lago, Trump fumes over the underperformance of his most prominent favorites.

Madison Cawthorn, the young representative from North Carolina whom Trump supported even though he alienated almost all of his congressional colleagues by collecting scandals, was defeated by an obscure local politician.

In Idaho, Trump protege Janice McGeachin, a strident far-right ideologue, was slammed by Gov. Brad Little, an already fairly right-wing Republican.

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In this key state that he narrowly lost in 2020, Trump bet big on two candidates. For the Republican nomination for governor, his favorite Doug Mastriano won hands down. Mastriano, who marched on Capitol Hill in a crowd of insurgents on Jan. 6, 2021, vowed to sway the election process in favor of Trump in 2024.

Trump has bet even bigger on Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, a doctor famous for his appearances on television and in gossip magazines. There should be a recount, but Oz seems to have narrowly defeated David McCormick, close to the Republican establishment.

The strong third place of Kathy Barnette, an ultra-conservative African-American more Trumpist than Trump, has confused the cards.

Barnette’s authenticity almost got the better of Doctor Oz, whom Trump admires for his media successes but many Pennsylvanians take for an impostor whose conservative beliefs ring false.

To run for this seat in the Senate, the Democrats have overwhelmingly chosen John Fetterman, a charismatic giant of two meters whose direct and nonconformist style has everything to please the disappointed Democrats who had opted for Trump in 2016. It will be a race to follow.

Other turbulence in sight

Next Tuesday the action shifts to Georgia, where Donald Trump is seeking to unseat Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who committed the inexpiable sin of refusing to tamper with the election results in his favor in November. 2020.

Polls predict Kemp and Raffensperger should inflict two more defeats on Trump, who might take comfort in seeing his Senate favorite, ex-footballer Herschel Walker, gain the Democratic ticket despite a heavy record of personal scandals and controversial statements .

Republicans are favored to retake the two congressional majorities in November. They will be weighed down by the Trumpist radicalization of the party and by the revelations of the investigations into the events of January 6, 2021 and the allegations once morest Donald Trump.

However, that probably won’t be enough for the Democrats to hold on to Congress unless all the sores in the US economy suddenly disappear.

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