As President Ruto of Kenya becomes the first African leader to officially visit Washington in 15 years, our Africa correspondent Jane Flanagan explains how the continent has become a proxy for a wider power struggle between the US, China and Russia. Plus, global affairs analyst Michael Bociurkiw discusses the threat of escalation if Ukraine uses NATO-supplied weapons to directly attack Russian territory.

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