The US, France and Russia find themselves at the mercy of choice
Russian, French and American leaders travel along the path hoping to rally support for their positions in the war in Ukraine, in what some experts say is the toughest competition for influence on the continent since the temporary Cold War.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and French President Emmanuel Macron will visit several African countries this week.
Head of the United States Agency for Defense Development (USAID) US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield will visit Ghana and Uganda on the ground.
“As they say in voting for a new cold war in which the rival parties of the turnover gain the initiative,” said William Gumede, director of the Democracy Works Foundation, which promotes elected government.
On his trips to monitor drought and famine across the continent, Lavrov prevents the atrocity from being discovered, blames it on rising food prices, while Western leaders defend the Kremlin’s crimes of using a cynical food register as a weapon and waging an imperial war of conquest that, as they appreciate to resonate with visitors in a post-colonial environment.
The head of Russian diplomacy recently, for example, in Egypt, Congo, Uganda and Ethiopia, promising friendship and blaming the US and European countries for rising food prices, pursuing a “reckless” environmental policy.
Russia is also trying to influence public opinion in favor of its state television network, RT, formerly known as Russia Today. RT has announced that it will meet the new bureau in Johannesburg.
“For Russia, this is a struggle to be heard along the way. This is important not for mass action, but for long-term observation,” said a journalism professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. “They are looking for fertile ground to nurture their research, and of course votes at the UN are important too.”
During the trip down the French road, President Macron accused the Kremlin of gathering TV channels like RT to spread propaganda in support of the war.
African supply macrons oppose Russia.
“I tell you here, on the road, on the continent that came from colonial imperialism: Russia is one of the last colonial, imperial powers. She decided to conquer a neighboring country in order to secure her interests. Such is the reality,” he said.
USAID chief Power was in Eastern Europe, where he could help the region fight famine and years of drought. At the same time, she could not resist criticism of Russia.
“By blocking the export of Ukrainian law and restricting commercial private property, Putin is causing public pain in Kenya and elsewhere in the world,” Power said in Nairobi. “He is hurting the people of Kenya to benefit himself.”