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African leaders tell Vladimir Putin: 'We have a right to call for peace'

Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi, left, is greeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the official welcome ceremony for heads of delegations of countries taking part in the Russia Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2023. [Via VOA]

African leaders pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to move ahead with their plan to end the Ukraine conflict and to renew a deal crucial to Africa on the safe wartime export of Ukrainian grain, which Moscow tore up last week.

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