STEVEN KUO: African delegation to Moscow and Kyiv unlikely to secure peace
President Cyril Ramaphosa met with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Egypt on Monday. Together with Senegal’s Macky Sall, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema and Comoros Islands’ Othman Ghazali, the AU president, they will form an Africa peace mission that will travel to Kyiv and Moscow to meet presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in mid-June.
The war may be in Europe, but African countries have felt the blunt effects of rising grain and energy prices, so much so that it is causing societal instability. In the UN General Assembly resolution in March 2022 calling on Russia to halt its invasion and withdraw its forces from Ukraine, Egypt and Comoros voted in favour, while Senegal, Uganda, Zambia and SA abstained. The African peace delegation is therefore well constituted. All regions of Africa are represented, and it has enough balance for both Ukraine and Russia to feel they have friends in the delegation. ..
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