Isolate Russia? Nobody Told the Global South
A worker collects a sample of wheat grain at a government-operated mill in central Fayoum, Egypt, on May 19.
Photographer: Islam Safwat/BloombergRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov might have expected a rough ride on his tour of Africa this week. Instead he’s being welcomed with open arms.
The trip by President Vladimir Putin’s chief envoy takes in countries that are among the most vulnerable to disruptions to food imports as a result of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. But if there have been rebukes, they haven’t been made in public.