Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni after his meeting with Russia's Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. During that meeting in Entebbe, Museveni said they want to trade with Russia. "We want to trade with all countries of the world. We don’t believe in being enemies of somebody’s enemy, No! We want to make our own enemies not fight other people’s enemies."
A priority for Lavrov’s trip to Egypt, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Ethiopia is to show that Russia is not isolated internationally, despite expansive western sanctions