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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Ukraine on Thursday said it would open more embassies in Africa and stage a summit with leaders from the continent, where Russia is also carrying out a diplomatic offensive.<\/b><\/p>\n

“We have recently adopted our first African strategy and intensified our political dialogue with many countries on the continent,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a statement to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the African Union’s forerunner.<\/p>\n

“This year, we are going to establish new embassies in different parts of the continent and plan to hold the first Ukraine-Africa Summit. I invite the leaders of your countries to take part in this important event.”<\/p>\n

Kuleba is currently on a tour of Africa, where he made an appeal from Addis Ababa on Wednesday to Ukraine’s “African friends” to end their declared neutrality in the war.<\/p>\n

He was scheduled to visit Rwanda on Thursday. Other details about the tour have not been revealed.<\/p>\n

Russia has ties with African countries, including their present-day leaders, that can be traced to the Cold War, when the Soviet Union cast itself as an anti-colonialist defender.<\/p>\n

A Russia-Africa summit, the second in the series, is to be held in Saint Petersburg from July 26-29.<\/p>\n

In February, 22 of the African Union’s 54 member states abstained or did not vote on a UN General Assembly resolution marking the one-year anniversary of the war that called for Russia withdraw from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Two of them — Eritrea and Mali — voted against the resolution.<\/p>\n

Kuleba in his statement stressed the efforts to unblock Ukraine grain exports, which have been hamstrung by Russia’s naval blockade of its ports.<\/p>\n

African countries have been badly hit by the inflationary surge triggered by the war, especially in cereals, of which they are major importers.” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have already sent six ships with a cargo of 170,000 tonnes of wheat to Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen,” he said.<\/p>\n

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