Grain takes center stage as Russian foreign minister visits Cairo on his African tour

Source: Middle East Institute

Author(s): Mirette F. Mabrouk

Original Link: https://www.mei.edu/blog/weekly-briefing-tunisian-referendum-test-presidents-legitimacy#mabrouk

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov touched down in Cairo on Sunday, July 24, for the first leg of his African charm offensive tour. Lavrov, who will also be visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and Uganda, will probably be trying to send much the same message in all of them: Russia is still a valuable ally to have. The tour is being warily followed in the West.

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