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Representatives from Russia and Ukraine met in the United Arab Emirates last week to discuss the possibility of a prisoner-of-war swap that would be linked to a resumption of Russian ammonia exports, which go to Asia and Africa, via a Ukrainian pipeline, three sources with knowledge of the meeting said. The sources said the talks were being mediated by the Gulf Arab state and did not include the United Nations despite the U.N.'s central role in negotiating the ongoing initiative to export agricultural products from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports.

The attention and intention with which the ports, terminals and connectivity infrastructure are built and financed in Africa are quite visible right now across its political, economic and regulatory...

Unctad identifies 45K new products with export potential

The UN-led Initiative, brokered by Turkey, has helped to stabilise and subsequently lower global food prices.

Generals are often criticized for fighting the last war. What about central bankers who seem unable to grasp the lessons of the last emergency, still less to anticipate the next