The number of African countries that abstained from the UN General Assembly vote condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine came as a surprise to some. But it follows a certain logic based on recent and historical precedent, says analyst Aanu Adeoye.
“Africans see this Russian-Ukraine invasion as Russia on the one hand versus Ukraine and some Western allies,” Aanu Adeoye, a Russia-Eurasia program fellow at Chatham House in London told RFI.