U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday met with foreign ministers from 10 African countries to discuss issues surrounding food security at a United Nations meeting in New York.
The African countries represented include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Senegal.
Blinken — who was accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Mary Catherine Phee — emphasized the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, drought in the Horn of Africa and Russia’s war in Ukraine.