Africa will play a crucial role in the rising new world -- RT Africa

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : " The composition of the 'Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment', established for Africa in 2022, reveals the West's view of who should control African resources: Australia, the UK, Germany, Canada, South Korea, the US, Sweden, Finland, France, Japan, and the European Union.
62% : Politically, Africa comprises 54 member states of the United Nations (UN), 27 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), six members of OPEC, and five members of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).
59% : Russia is also seen as a supporter of Africa's legitimate aspiration to expand its representation in intergovernmental organizations, including the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
57% : I prefer to die with my head unbowed, my faith unshakeable and with profound trust in the destiny of my country, rather than live under subjection and disregarding sacred principles.
57% : In addition to the Russia-Africa summits, there are similar mechanisms such as Africa-China, Africa-USA, Africa-India, Africa-EU, Africa-Arab World, Africa-Latin America, and Africa-Turkey.
57% : Partnerships like these invariably deprive Africans of the opportunity to transform their resources into economic, technological, and political sovereignty.
57% : Not a single country on the continent has joined anti-Russian sanctions.
57% : The Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) offers courses in Swahili, Afrikaans, and Amharic, while the Institute of Asian and African Countries (ISAA) adds Fulfulde.
54% : The year 1960 became known as the 'Year of Africa' as 16 of the 17 states admitted to the UN that year were African.
54% : African experts lament that, for example, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) predominantly promotes a political agenda rooted in neoliberal globalist ideology.
53% : Local analysts note that "after the failure of France and UN peacekeeping forces in Africa, Russia has emerged as a reliable partner, accomplishing in a few months what international contingents failed to do for years.
51% : This step, supported by Africans, suggests that the UN still has the potential to play a constructive role in uniting progressive forces in the fight against hegemonism and injustice.
50% : Africans are dissatisfied that they are still being treated as mere extras in foreign-policy projects promoted under the banner of a 'rules-based order' These include attempts to lure African countries into 'summits for democracy,' held at the initiative of the US administration from 2021 to 2024, to pressure them into voting for anti-Russian resolutions at the UN and other venues, and to secure at least the appearance of support for one-sided initiatives to resolve the Ukrainian crisis that fail to take Russia's interests into account.
47% : These nations, having freed themselves from the military and political oppression of colonial powers (Belgium, Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and France), faced the arduous task of building newly acquired statehood.
45% : In promoting so-called climate and environmental agendas in Africa, the West similarly pursues selfish commercial and political interests that contradict the aspirations of African countries.
43% : Drafted by member states of the Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter under Russia's leadership, the resolution was supported by an overwhelming majority of African countries.
43% : While there is some truth to these observations, serving the motherland is primarily about fulfilling government objectives, with personal comfort being secondary.
43% : This view is shared by the leadership of Russia's foreign policy department and guides our approach in redirecting personnel to non-Western regions.
42% : We cannot but support those Africans who openly call on "the EU and other U.S. allies not to impose their way of life and values on those who do not wish it."
42% : Their recommendations effectively limit governments' ability to combat extremist or terrorist threats that align with Western interests, ignoring real causes like destructive foreign intervention, state destabilization, and intercommunal tensions often provoked for the benefit of Western multinationals.
41% : History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or in the United Nations.
40% : Africa is among the leaders in refusing to support Western-initiated anti-Russian resolutions in the UN General Assembly.
37% : As a result, many African nations have fallen into a man-made 'wheat trap', forced to import expensive wheat-based products from the EU.
37% : Despite operating five peacekeeping missions in Africa, the UN, according to African political scientists, has demonstrated a chronic inability to improve security.
36% : UN agencies like the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UNHCR, and the UNDP focus on short-term coordination with biased Western NGOs.

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