Out of the 54 countries in Africa, only 17 heads of state have confirmed their attendance at the Russia-Africa summit, set to take place in St. Petersburg on July 27-28. Over 40 countries will be represented by vice presidents, prime ministers, deputy prime ministers, or heads of government. Zimbabw...
IMO it's very condescending that there is a Russia-Africa summit where all the leaders of Africa are summoned to St Petersburg (and the US does the exact same thing with the US-Africa summit). As if they need to come and pay tribute.