{"id":53877,"date":"2024-06-16T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/president-ruto-condemns-russias-invasion-highlights-african-conflicts-at-global-summit\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T07:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T07:03:18","slug":"president-ruto-condemns-russias-invasion-highlights-african-conflicts-at-global-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/president-ruto-condemns-russias-invasion-highlights-african-conflicts-at-global-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ruto Condemns Russia\u2019s Invasion, Highlights African Conflicts at Global Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/image-8.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NAIROBI, Kenya June 16 \u2013 President William Ruto has joined world leaders in condemning Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, calling it unlawful, unjust, and against international law. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Saturday in B\u00fcrgenstock, Switzerland, during the inaugural Summit on Peace in Ukraine, President Ruto emphasized the need for all parties to demonstrate good faith, abandon rigid stances, and soften their positions to achieve lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto highlighted the global impact of the conflict, noting that it has had devastating effects worldwide, including in Africa. <\/p>\n<p>He specifically emphasised how the war in Ukraine has led to increased fertilizer prices in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/image-9.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amidst the focus on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, President Ruto urged the international community to also pay attention to the often overlooked wars tearing apart Africa\u2019s social fabric. He pointed out that nearly 16 different conflicts are raging across the continent, from the Western Sahel to the Horn of Africa, and from the Lake Chad Basin to the Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica\u2019s many long-running and long-forgotten wars continue unabated, wreaking unimaginable devastation on a daily basis,\u201d he told the summit. He cited the ongoing conflict in Sudan as an example, describing it as a \u201csenseless war\u201d causing death, destruction, and hopelessness.<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto noted that these conflicts have led to acute food insecurity, displacement, and the deaths of millions of people. He criticized the current global peace architecture as dysfunctional and called for a collective effort to address these issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is indicative of a dysfunctional global peace architecture, and a failure of leadership,\u201d he told the world leaders.<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto\u2019s remarks come at a critical time, as the international community grapples with multiple crises and the need for coordinated efforts to resolve them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya June 16 \u2013 President William Ruto has joined world leaders in condemning Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, calling it unlawful, unjust, and against international law. Speaking on Saturday in B\u00fcrgenstock, Switzerland, during the inaugural Summit on Peace in Ukraine, President Ruto emphasized the need for all parties to demonstrate good faith, abandon rigid stances, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}