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When Washington’s old alliances begin to fray, Ottawa and Brussels rush to rewrite the transatlantic playbook—but beneath the rhetoric of unity lie political fault lines, economic contradictions and competing ambitions.

The Third Russia-Africa Summit displayed a strong and organic partnership and convergence of viewpoints from both sides.  Meanwhile, agents of colonialism, whose predecessors plunged Africa into poverty to attain wealth and prestige for the West, got rattled.

 Africa has every opportunity to use the ongoing changes in the international order to become a more influential global player.