The Conversation posted on 8 March 2022 a commentary titled "Russia-Ukraine War: Decoding How African Countries Voted at the UN" by Mahama Tawat, Universite of Montpelier.
The author concluded the 27 African countries that voted for the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine were mostly Western-aligned democracies with a few important exceptions. Most of the 17 countries that abstained are authoritarian or hybrid regimes and some have close military ties with Russia. Functional democracies of Namibia, South Africa, and Senegal were outliers.
