Russia Vies for Influence in Africa - Blinken to Make 2nd Visit Africa
Days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavlov toured four African capitals and French President Emmanuel Macron visited three west African states, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced plans to travel to three African countries after visits to Cambodia and the Phillipines next week. Blinken's intinerary includes stops in South Africa, the Democractic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
"High level visits should signal commitment, not just competition," according to Michael Gavin, writing in a for the Council on Foreign Relations."That energy and high-level engagement is unequivocally positive," writes Gavin - a former U.S. ambassador and White House official during the Obama administration. But successful engagement"will take expertise, resources, and sustained commitment to move beyond crisis-management and execute a thoughtful strategy suited to U.S.
"Moscow is trying to gain influence on the continent without investing in it," Joseph Siegel from the Africa Center for Strategic Strategiv Studies writes for
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