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NAIROBI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Russia-Ukraine crisis will hurt Africa's agricultural and energy sectors which are crucial for the continent's economic development, a senior pan-African bank official said on Friday. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) told journalists in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that the crisis could reduce Africa's annual food production by between 20-50 percent due to scarcity of key agricultural inputs. "The continent imports about two million metric tons of fertilizers per year from Russia and Ukraine. So what that means is that if we don't take action, the food production itself would...
