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  • African Support of Russian Invasion Extraordinary After the Continent’s Colonial Past

    African Support of Russian Invasion Extraordinary After the Continent’s Colonial Past

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    Many Africans seem ambivalent about Putin’s attempts to recreate Russia’s empire, even though colonialism caused the African continent so much personal pain and injury, and seeded state dysfunction. Liberation struggles should be worthy of support, in Europe as in Africa.

    ‘No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.” These were the words of Tanzanian President Julius Kambarage Nyerere on colonialism in January 1968. Such perspectives have apparently been forgotten in responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    Amid confusingly contrarian reports how Russia is “about to run out of steam” in its invasion of Ukraine, how Russia is openly no longer “limiting its war aims” to Ukraine’s eastern areas, and the grain shipment deal agreed on by Kyiv and Moscow followed immediately by Russian missile-strikes on the Odesa port, one African contradiction stands out: Why, in the face of an obvious abrogation of human rights and international law by Russia, do many African states refuse to take the side of Ukraine?

    The answer may have to do with opportunism.

    The South African Department of International Relations and Co-operation has examined how South African businesses can profit by plugging the holes created by…

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  • Ethiopia: #newsalert – US, Egypt Reiterate “Support for Egypt’s Water Security, Forging Diplomatic Resolution” On GERD

    Ethiopia: #newsalert – US, Egypt Reiterate “Support for Egypt’s Water Security, Forging Diplomatic Resolution” On GERD

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    Addis Abeba — Following a meeting today between President Joe Biden and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al Sisi in Jeddah in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the two leaders issued a joint statement in which the U.S. and Egypt discussed, among others, to promote “regional stability.”

    One of the issues the two leaders discussed is the issue of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

    “President Biden reiterated U.S. support for Egypt’s water security and to forging a diplomatic resolution that would achieve the interests of all parties and contribute to a more peaceful and prosperous region,” the statement said.

    In June this year, Ethiopia objected a similar stance taken by the European Union expressing the block’s support to “Egypt’s water security”.

    “The European Union should reconsider its biased stance on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,” Ambassador Dina Mufti, the spokesperson of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), told local media on 23 June.

    It is recalled that following the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting held on 20 June, the EU and Egypt released a joint statement highlighting the importance of “reaching a mutually acceptable and binding agreement on the filling and operations of the GERD.”

    But Ethiopia denounced the statement as “senseless and biased”, and called upon the EU to reconsider its stance.

    Similarly, the U.S.-Egypt joint statement said that “the two leaders reiterated the imperative of concluding an agreement on the filling and operation of the GERD without further delay as stipulated in the Statement of the President of the United Nations Security Council dated September 15, 2021, and in accordance with international law.”

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