Analysis - With Russia's foreign minister and France's president in Africa this week, propaganda around the Ukraine war is intensifying.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during the minister's visit Kampala on June 26, 2022With Russia's foreign minister and France's president in Africa this week, propaganda around the Ukraine war is intensifying.
Indeed Lavrov was soon engaged in a virtual propaganda war with French President Emmanuel Macron, who was also on an African safari - perhaps not coincidentally -- visiting Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau. MacronThe rival visits were further evidence that Russia's war against Ukraine was regressive - taking the world back to Cold War postures and risking making Africa a proxy battleground again.
The embargo and consequent grain shortage helped double grain prices and aggravated food insecurity, especially in Africa. In June, the African Union quicklyits chair Macky Sall and AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat to Sochi to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin and plead for relief. Steven Gruzd, Head of the Russia-Africa project at the South African Institute of International Affairs, agrees that Putin sent Lavrov to Africa partly as a propaganda move. But also 'to counter the very effective public relations that President [Volodymyr] Zelensky has had on social media.' Gruzd also believes the visit is a 'deliberate ploy by Russia to show that it's not isolated and can still get support on the international stage.
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