West failed to hold up its end of Black Sea grain deal
Russia and Africa should now work on a more fair agreement, Ovigwe Eguegu told RT
An excavator loads grain into a cargo ship at a grain port in Izmail, Ukraine, April 26, 2023 © AP / Andrew Kravchenko
It is “disingenuous” of the West to expect Russia to renew the Black Sea grain deal when Western governments didn’t hold up their end of the bargain, policy analyst Ovigwe Eguegu told RT on Saturday. Russia and Africa, he argued, should strike a new deal.
“The agreement had run its full course,” said Eguegu, a policy expert at consultancy Development Reimagined. “The conditions were not met, for instance that the Russian agricultural bank would be reconnected to SWIFT, that the EU would lift all restrictions on Russian agricultural products th...










