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South Africa, China and Russia will jointly stage naval drills in February to strengthen the already flourishing relations between the three countries. The African country will host the training. “South Africa will host the Chinese and Russian Federation navies in a multilateral maritime exercise between February 17 and 27,” the South African military confirmed in […]
Mali acquired Thursday military equipment including fighter jets and helicopters from Russia to beef up the army in the fight against terrorists. The delivery included one Soukhoï Su-25 attack aircraft, trainer jet Aero L-39 Albatros and several Mi-8 helicopters. Colonel Assimi Goïta, the leader of the transition in the African country, and Igor Gromyko, the […]
South Africa will use its chairmanship of the BRICS group of leading emerging economies — comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — to focus on advancing African interests, the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. South Africa has just taken over the chairmanship of the BRICS — a bloc widely seen as an […]
Namibian authorities have ordered Russia’s state atomic energy agency to stop uranium exploration over concerns about potential contamination of underground water. Namibia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform refused to grant Russia’s Rosatom subsidiary, One Uranium, a water use permit required for mining, saying the company failed to prove its uranium extraction method would […]
Egypt has toppled Russia as a fertilizer exporter to European markets, with exports amounting to 1.5 billion euros during the first ten months of this year, compared to 521 million euros for the same period last year, Asharq Business reports, citing the Egyptian Export Council for Chemical Industries. The council on Wednesday quoted a report […]
In a bid to maintain their strong grip on power and avoid U.S. sanctions for financing Moscow’s war in Ukraine through the purchase of Russian weapons, the Algerian rulers started distancing themselves from their Russian historical ally and main arms supplier. According to Spanish newspaper “El Confidencial” and French daily “Courrier International”, the Algerian military […]
Russia has donated 260,000 metric tons of its fertilizer that was sitting in European ports and warehouses for use by farmers in drought-ravaged Malawi and other countries in Africa, the United Nations said. Welcoming the announcement, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that “this will serve to alleviate humanitarian needs and prevent catastrophic crop loss in […]
The European Union, EU, has allocated 96 million euros for West African states to support the region to build resilience and local food production capacity in the backdrop of the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine. Francesca Di Mauro, head of the EU mission to Cote d’Ivoire made the announcement Monday in capital Abidjan. She […]
The Central African Republic, CAR, Monday said an unidentified aircraft hailing from a neighboring country pounded army positions and forces of Russian private security company Wagner in the town of Bossangoa causing material damage, Faapa news reports. The aircraft “dropped explosives in the town of Bossangoa targeting the base of our Defense Forces, that of […]
The European Union, EU, is set to grant Tunisia €100 million earmarked to help the North African country surf the impacts of the pandemic and to support the economy, the ministry of Economy and planning has announced. The financing agreement will be signed this Monday, November 14, 2022, at the headquarters of the Ministry of […]