Exports from the Arab Gulf normally exceed 1.5 million tonnes of urea per month, meaning even short-term disruptions can quickly tighten global supply
Trump, Putin have identical 19th-century views about how the world should work, at a time when almost everybody else sees it differently.
Russia has its endless war in Ukraine, Africa has the Sudanese civil war, the U.S. is on the brink of invading Venezuela, India and Pakistan had a brief (non-nuclear) war in South Asia, and Israel bombed Iran, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April.