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By Michael M. Phillips and Nicholas Bariyo NAIROBI--William Ruto, who ran on a promise to boost the economic prospects of Kenyas scrappy street vendors, day laborers and delivery drivers, has...

Saabira Chaudhuri reported in today's Wall Street Journal that, "Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a global shortage of sunflower oil that has in turn pushed prices of other edible oils to record highs, hitting food makers and consumers already grappling with inflation."

Over the past 120 years, a Beirut bakery has survived civil war, Lebanon's financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. Fighting in Ukraine, disrupting food and energy supplies world-wide, may soon put it out of business.

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