Africa needs more help with climate change, debt and food crises

FILE PHOTO: Famine Early Warning System Network in Africa (FEWS NET) scientist Chris Shitote examines a dry water hole in Kilifi county, Kenya, February 16, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Africa is struggling with the triple shock of rising debt burdens, an ongoing food crisis and climate change fallout and needs more help from international institutions and wealthy nations to cope, African finance ministers said on Saturday.

Developing African economies were only beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic when Russia's invasion of Ukraine provoked capital market turmoil and an inflation acceleration that sent food prices soaring.