{"id":20431,"date":"2023-01-22T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T10:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/sergey-lavrov-back-to-africa-with-a-vengeance-analysis"},"modified":"2023-01-22T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T11:43:09","slug":"sergey-lavrov-back-to-africa-with-a-vengeance-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/sergey-lavrov-back-to-africa-with-a-vengeance-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Sergey Lavrov Back To Africa With A Vengeance \u2013 Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>To call it a new \u2018scramble for Africa\u2019, as some like to do, is clearly hyperbolic. Nonetheless, it can\u2019t be denied that the Big Powers are energetically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate.<\/b><\/p>\n

China\u2019s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang got off to an early start, visiting Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin and Egypt last week. United States (US) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is on a tour to Senegal, Zambia and South Africa.<\/p>\n

And next Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to visit South Africa at the start of a planned second African tour since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 \u2013 an act that Moscow evidently needs to justify across the continent. On his July 2022 trip, Lavrov visited Egypt, Congo-Brazzaville, Uganda and Ethiopia, also meeting the African Union (AU) leadership in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n

The Qin and Lavrov trips could be seen as responses to US President Joe Biden\u2019s Africa summit in December, which appeared to have been successful and certainly pulled a big crowd of leaders.<\/p>\n

Though it hasn\u2019t yet been officially announced, ISS Today understands that Lavrov will visit Eswatini, Botswana and Angola after South Africa. He will then return to North Africa in February to visit Tunisia, Mauritania, Algeria and Morocco. That would amount to 12 countries plus the AU in just over six months \u2013 an impressive diplomatic charm offensive on Africa.<\/p>\n

The Big Powers are energetically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate<\/b><\/p>\n

Yet in a marathon three-hour press conference in Moscow on 18 January, covering the world but mostly Ukraine, Lavrov didn\u2019t mention an African tour. In fact, Africa only came into the picture in the very last question of the conference. A Russian journalist asked him to comment on Sputnik TV\u2019s interview with South African international relations Minister Naledi Pandor.<\/p>\n

In it, Pandor had demanded, not for the first time, the withdrawal of the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa bill, adopted by the US House of Representatives in 2022. It would impose sanctions on Russian entities \u2013 like the Wagner private military company \u2013 deemed to be conducting \u2018malign\u2019 activities on the continent. It could also lead to US sanctions on African governments and businesses dealing with such Russian entities.<\/p>\n

US Senate sources believe the legislation was a misguided overreaction by the House to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, and that the more sober-minded Senate wouldn\u2019t even bother to take it up. Nonetheless, it is remarkable how much negative influence the bill is having on America\u2019s relations with Africa.<\/p>\n

The bill plays directly into Russia and Lavrov\u2019s narrative about America\u2019s supposedly patronising attitude toward Africa. \u2018This is the colonial paradigm par excellence,\u2019 Lavrov said on Wednesday. He recalled how former US president Donald Trump\u2019s secretary of state Mike Pompeo had told African states in February 2020 that they should stop trading with Russia and China because these two countries were serving their own interests and damaging Africa\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In a three-hour press conference on 18 January, Lavrov didn\u2019t mention an African tour<\/b><\/p>\n

He revealed that much of the second Russia-Africa summit, which his government would host in Saint Petersburg late in July 2023, would be devoted to finding ways for Russia and Africa to sidestep such US sanctions. \u2018We are preparing documents on finetuning our interaction mechanisms to the new conditions that involve sanctions,\u2019 he said. This would entail adjusting investment and trade tools and supply chains.<\/p>\n

Most of all, Lavrov said, \u2018We are shifting to settlements in national currencies\u2019 \u2013 rather than the US dollar. These changes would not happen overnight, but they were underway, he said.<\/p>\n

The implications of Lavrov\u2019s remarks were quite far-reaching. Will all African countries be willing to collaborate with Moscow in elaborating new systems to circumvent US and Western sanctions?<\/p>\n

Something similar is already under way in BRICS \u2013 the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa bloc of emerging nations. The bloc has already begun granting loans from its New Development Bank and conducting trade in its own currencies rather than the greenback.<\/p>\n

Will all African countries want to collaborate with Moscow on circumventing US and Western sanctions?<\/b><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not surprising that South Africa already seems on board with this project. Pandor told Sputnik that, \u2018We have always been concerned that there is a dominance of the dollar and that we do need to look at alternatives. I think this was one of the reasons we created the New Development Bank of BRICS.<\/p>\n

\u2018The systems currently in place tend to privilege really wealthy countries and tend to be really a challenge for countries such as ourselves, which have to make payments in dollars, which cost much more in terms of our various currencies. So I do think a fairer system has to be developed.\u2019 She added that BRICS\u2019s economic ministers were discussing this.<\/p>\n

So will this project now become Africa-wide? Is President Vladimir Putin going to use the Russia-Africa summit to go beyond rhetoric and recruit Africa into his alternative universe?<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Botswana. To call it a new \u2018scramble for Africa\u2019, as some like to do, is clearly hyperbolic. Nonetheless, it can\u2019t be denied that the Big Powers are energetically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate. 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