The UN General Assembly voted on 7 April 2022 to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council because of its human rights abuses in Ukraine. The vote was 93 in favor, 24 opposed, 58 abstaining, and the remainder not voting.
Only ten (Chad, Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, DRC, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Sierra Leone) of Africa's fifty-four countries voted to expel Russia. Nine (Algeria, Burundi, CAR, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mali, and Zimbabwe) voted alongside Russia in a failed effort to defeat the resolution. The two major surprises opposing the resolution were Ethiopia and Gabon. Twenty-four African states abstained and eleven did not vote.
