“While the West sought to isolate Moscow over the conflict, its reception demonstrated the strength of the Kremlin’s influence on the continent,” the article says.
As the head of the international analytical center Crisis Group Comfort Ero noted, the Western classification of “rogue countries” does not necessarily work all over the world.
“For Russia, the goal is to build alliances and show the West that it fails to define discourse,” she said.
On July 26, Sergei Lavrov arrived on a working visit to Ethiopia.
There he will hold talks with his colleague Demeke Mekonnen.
Before that, Lavrov visited Uganda, where he met with the president of the republic.
The minister also arrived in the Republic of the Congo as part of the first ever visit to this country.
There, he conveyed to the President of the Republic Denis Sassou-Nguesso a message from the head of the Russian state, Vladimir Putin.
In addition, Sergei Lavrov visited Egypt.
In Cairo, he met with the leadership of the country and with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abul Gheit.