Keyword: fuel crisis

More than Three 'F' Words to Describe the Food, Fuel and Finance Crisis

Picture: Eyasu Solomon Fazila Farouk - The current global crisis is being described to as the triple ‘F’ crisis of food, fuel and finance. Nowhere is the crisis being felt more than among Africa’s poor. The rising price of food, in particular, is a topic that’s on everybody’s lips. Even the BBC’s head of world news, Nick Gowing, chaired a session examining the food crisis at the recently held African leg of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where the usual suspects were rounded...