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Africa flexes its diplomatic muscles – POLITICO
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Ivor Ichikowitz is an industrialist and philanthropist. He is the chair of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, which paid for the installation of the Mandela mural in Kyiv.
In the wake of this year’s Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, there are some who will point to both the drop in attendance by heads of state and the Black Sea Grain Initiative’s collapse as evidence that the inaugural African Peace Initiative
No cease-fire while Ukraine is on the offensive, Putin says – POLITICO
Vladimir Putin said he does not reject the idea of peace talks over Ukraine, but the Russian president added that there could be no cease-fire while Ukrainian forces are “on the offensive.”
Speaking after meeting with African leaders in St. Petersburg, Putin told a press conference that African and Chinese peace initiatives could serve as a basis for ending the war in Ukraine, but are “impossible to implement” at the moment.
“The Ukrainian army is on the offensive, they are
EU suspends Niger financial support, security cooperation after coup – POLITICO
The EU suspended security cooperation and financial support for Niger and declared that it will not recognize the leaders of a “putsch” that ousted the democratically elected president.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, called for President Mohamed Bazoum’s “unconditional” release from detention.
“This unacceptable attack on the integrity of Niger’s republican institutions will not remain without consequences for the partnership and cooperation,” Borrell said, confirming an “immediate cessation of budget support” and the suspension of “cooperation actions in
End the war! – POLITICO
African leaders issued a direct appeal on Friday to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his war against Ukraine.
“This war must end. And it can only end on the basis of justice and reason,” Moussa Faki Mahamat — foreign minister of Chad and current African Union Commission chairman — told Putin on the second day of a Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg.
Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso said an African peace plan “deserves the closest attention, it mustn’t be