Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ended his four-nation tour in Africa this past week, with a Jan. 26 stop in Asmara, Eritrea, where he met with President Isaias Afwerki, and others, for the purpose, as the Russian Foreign Ministry put it, of “strengthening bilateral relations as well as regional developments of interest to the two countries.”
Lavrov’s tour began in South Africa, and continued to Angola and Eswatini. This is Lavrov’s second time in Africa in six months, and several Western media are fuming over his stop in Eritrea, because as AFP wrote Jan. 26, Eritrea “was one of only five countries to vote against a UN resolution in March 2022 condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
