Global Journal of Human Social Science, F: Political Science, Volume 22 Issue 5

© 2022. Dirk Kohnert. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Will Putin’s Ukraine War Provoke Famine and Upheaval in Africa ? By Dirk Kohnert Abstract- Famines are almost always man-made often used as a deterrent. Since ancient times, food and hunger have been a weapon of war. Among the most notorious examples in Africa are the Herero and Namaqua genocide in German South-West Africa (now Namibia) from 1904 to 1908. It was the first genocide of the 20th century. Also, the subsequent famines in Biafra (South-East Nigeria, 1967-1969), when an estimated 1.5 million people starved to death, the 1980 famine in Uganda, one of the worst in African history, when 21% of the population died, and the recurring famines in Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan since the 1990s have been burned into human memory. The use of food as a weapon was condemned as a war crime by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998. Since most African countries are Least Developed Countries (LLCs), they will suffer the hardest in the aftermath of Putin's war in Ukraine, especially Africa's poor. They have already suffered the consequences of drought, the corona pandemic and Islamist terrorism. Keywords: russia, invasion, ukraine, africa, famine, international trade, global power, food power, arms deals, fra gile stat e, islamis t terrorism , egy pt, moro cco, algeria, tunisi a, libya, south africa, came roon, mozam bique, ethiop ia, kenya, uganda, somalia , namibia, nigeria, s udan, en ergy s ecurity, china, eu, usa. GJHSS-F Classification: JEL Code: E26, E31, F02, F13, F35, F51, F54, H56, N47 WillPutinsUkraineWarProvokeFamineandUpheavalinAfrica? Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: F Political Science Volume 22 Issue 5 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: