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World Service,08 Mar 2023,26 mins
UN visits Ukraine to save the Black Sea grain deal
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
As the Black Sea grain deal comes to an end in 10 days, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, is in Ukraine to meet President Zelensky in an effort to safeguard the crucial grain export deal. How much of a difference for East Africa has last year's Ukrainian grain deal made? We will find out from Kenya. Four bankers, three of them Russians, are in court in Switzerland this week, facing charges that they helped to launder millions of dollars’ worth of investments. In Australia, rising rents are fuelling a cost of living crisis and according to charities pushing people towards homelessness. (Picture: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shake hands after a joint news briefing in Kyiv. Source: REUTERS/Alina Yarysh)
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