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Zelensky in fresh bid to woo Africa amid pressure to protect territory

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. [File, Standard]

The burden of war weighs heavily on him.

Despite the strong voice that rolls out of his chest, a flicker of a twist in his stoic face now and again when he speaks, reveals a man who is used to being filmed, wanting to lock up state secrets of war behind a mask of toughness that befits a President.

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