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Beyond the famine, the West’s involvement in Ethiopia turned into overt political meddling.

Moldova's recent presidential vote was held amid alleged Russian interference and voter fraud, and across the Black Sea in Georgia, the pro-Western opposition says contested elections there were hit by Kremlin meddling.

At a rally on Thursday night, outside the university, I met people who recalled their years living under communist dictatorship and were genuinely scared that today's Russia could be meddling here.

The constitutional court is now being flooded with requests to look into the allegations of meddling with a view to possibly cancelling the election.

But Russia accused the UK of meddling in Sudanese affairs without involving Sudan itself.