The peace mission is driven by African concern about the soaring economic cost inflicted by the war, including rising food prices that have caused suffering across the continent
. But it is also driven by a desire by several African leaders – including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – to show that they are genuinely non-aligned on the Ukraine conflict, rather than favouring Moscow as many critics allege.
The war in Ukraine has “serious implications for us, in terms of the cost of living [and] food security,” South African minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told a media briefing on Thursday. “We want to listen to both sides,” Mr. Ramaphosa said earlier this week after an online meeting of the African leaders to discuss the mission.
Mr. Putin, who is organizing a separate Russia-Africa summit in July with all the African leaders invited, has seemed eager to meet the African presidents. But the Ukrainian government has been more cautious, urging the African leaders to support a separate Ukrainian peace plan. The African peace mission is being facilitated by a non-profit group, the Brazzaville Foundation, founded by wealthy French commodities trader Jean-Yves Ollivier, who played a role in some of the early negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s.
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