Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Africa as a rising center of power in the world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media at the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 28, 2023. | Valery Sharifulin/TASS Host Photo Agency Pool via AP PhotoNAIROBI, Kenya — African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a path to end the war there.
That commitment, with no details, follows Putin’s promise to start shipping 25,000 to 50,000 tons of grain for free to each of six African nations in the next three to four months — an amount dwarfed by the 725,000 tons shipped by the U.N. World Food Program to several hungry countries, African and otherwise, under the grain deal. Russia plans to send the free grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea and Central African Republic.
The presidents of Egypt and South Africa were among the most outspoken on the need to resume the grain deal. Putin also said Russia would analyze African leaders’ peace proposal for Ukraine, whose details have not been publicly shared. But the Russian leader asked: “Why do you ask us to pause fire? We can’t pause fire while we’re being attacked.”
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