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Year-End Survey: Vote for Africa's Most Influential Leader in 2023

© AP Photo / Khalil SenosiHead of states and delegates pose for a group photo, during the official opening of the Africa Climate Summit at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023.
Head of states and delegates pose for a group photo,  during the official opening of the Africa Climate Summit at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023.  - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 13.12.2023
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Sputnik Africa's editorial team is offering its followers on various platforms the opportunity to vote for the most influential African leader in the world in 2023, a year that some see as a new shift for African influence in the international arena.
During this year, which we will leave behind in a few weeks, Africa witnessed the accession of some of the continent's countries to international organizations such as the BRICS, and the evolution of the balance of world powers in the Sahel and West Africa after the expulsion of France from a number of countries in that region.
African leaders have led mediation efforts to establish peace and resolve conflicts in some local conflicts and crises within the continent, such as the crises in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and other countries.
The African continent also sent a mediation mission to lead the peace talks between the parties to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which was able to make some progress by visiting Kiev and Moscow and sitting down with the presidents of the two countries to bring their views closer.
African countries have also played an important role in other global issues, with the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict being one of the most recent examples. This week, 53 out of 54 African countries supported a UN resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, which has killed more than 18,000 civilians, mostly children.
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