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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Tom Balmforth

Ukraine courts Africa and 'Global South' as peace plans proliferate

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks during a joint news conference with Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein (not seen) in Baghdad, Iraq April 17, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo

Ukraine's foreign minister began a tour of African countries this week, stepping up wartime Kyiv's diplomatic push to challenge Russian influence in the "Global South" and cement the vision laid out by Ukraine as the only path to peace.

Top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba said his main priority was to get African countries to endorse President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's peace plan as he travelled to Morocco on his second tour of Africa since Russia invaded in February last year.

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