A sporting life in Africa
Mar 23, 2022
3 minutes
Amid the ghastly images from Ukraine, some of the only light relief are the videos of plucky farmers in tractors, towing captured tanks and missile systems down muddy lanes. If their barrels are not pointed back at Putin’s soldiers, they will be hidden under tarpaulins and cannibalised for spares.
Oil and gas prices obsess the world now, but within a few months it will be global food shortages, since Ukraine’s eastern regions are
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