Russia-Ukraine War: Impacts on Energy Market and Food Security in Africa

The supremacy of Russia in Eastern Europe, including its hegemony in the Warsaw Pact until the collapse of socialism in the 1990s created a national pride that the country is determined to sustain at any cost. The conflict between this pride and NATO’s expansionary agenda has been a key factor in the ongoing war in Ukraine. Apart from the loss of lives, the war is affecting a host of strategic issues, including food security, energy supply and sustainable development, both regionally and globally. A scholarly study of its impact can, therefore, serve as one means of reimagining new geopolitics and geostrategy for the realization of security, economic and political goals. This chapter is a study along this line. It challenges the original notion of democratic peaceDemocratic peace in trying to define the true impact of the war as it identifies some subjectivity in the original notion. As a way forward, it recommends the creation of a platform for a global consciousness to seek and foster regional and international stability based on the UN alarm ‘War No More’, to privilege peaceful coexistence, enhance sustainable development, fight climate change, eradicate hunger and povertyPoverty, and make energy available, particularly in Africa. Secondly, the chapter recommends that the UN can improve on its Charter for the equality of all nations to prevent inter-nations wars that often end in human tragedies and ecological catastrophes.