Putin’s War: Position of African Democracies and Autocracies

Putin’s War: Position of African Democracies and Autocracies

 Source: The Guardian published on 28 March 2022 an article titled “Cold War Echoes as African Leaders Resist Criticising Putin’s War” by Jason Burke.

This article focuses on African leaders–about half of the total–who have refrained from criticizing Putin’s war against Ukraine.  It concludes that most of the African countries that voted in the UN General Assembly to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are democracies and Western allies while most that abstained are authoritarian or hybrid regimes.  

Labels: autocracy, CAR, Cold War, democracy, Eritrea, Mali, Mozambique, Russia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, UNGA, Wagner Group, war, Zimbabwe