Putin woos African leaders – Daily Trust

President Vladimir Putin instructed African leaders on Wednesday that Russia was their greatest companion, ‌accusing what he forged as a colonial West of nonetheless making an attempt to use the continent’s sources and utilizing debt to carry again improvement.

Putin was talking on the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, a two-day occasion attended by African leaders and authorities delegations from 48 nations, and can maintain ​one-on-one talks with most of the 22 particular person African leaders attending on points corresponding to commerce, safety, arms and ​grain.

The occasion, first held in 2019, is a part of a concerted push for Russian political, financial and army affect on a continent the place paramilitary fighters from Russia’s Africa Corps stay lively.