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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will hold this January 24 talks with his Chadian counterpart Mahamat Idriss Deby who embarked Tuesday on an official visit to Moscow. Vladimir Putin’s office said on X that talks will focus on the prospects for the development of Russia-Chad relations in various areas, as well as issues on the regional […]
Vsevolod Tkachenko, Director of the Africa Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced Tuesday December 12 the opening of the Russian embassy in Burkina Faso by end of December 2023, with several other missions to be opened in other Africa countries. “We expect that technically we will be able to open an embassy in Burkina […]
Mercenaries from the Wagner Group are reportedly making $10 million per month through their involvement in the ongoing conflict in Mali as it exchanges African gold to help fund Vladimir Putin’s war machine, experts have said. US intelligence experts believe the Russian-backed private military company, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin until his violent death in August, […]
The Burkina Faso military government has signed an agreement with the Russian government for the construction of a nuclear power plant in the West African country, in a move that aims to “cover the energy needs of the population,” less than a quarter of which had access to electricity by late 2020, according to the […]
The Russian warlord at the head of the Wagner mercenary group that had been operating in several African countries has been reportedly killed in a business jet crash northwest of Moscow on Wednesday (23 August). Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport reported to have initiated an investigation of the crash of a plane en route […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin expressed, on Friday, at the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit, the wish to see Russian-Moroccan relations further strengthen and continue the momentum launched during the visit of King Mohammed VI to Russia in 2016. The Russian president commended, in a speech, King Mohammed VI, expressing the wish to see bilateral relations evolve and […]
When African leaders meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg in late July for a summit, their discussions will likely be overshadowed by Russia’s pull-out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative that could badly damage Moscow’s relations with its African partners. Billed as strengthening cooperation in peace, security, and development, the Russia-Africa Summit […]
In a surprising turnaround, South Africa’s presidency announced on Wednesday that, in the end, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not personally attend the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. In March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin for alleged war crimes involving accusations that Russia has forcibly taken Ukrainian […]
The Wagner Group’s mutiny against the Kremlin last week (23-24 June) could have major repercussions for the group’s operations in Africa, not least in the Central African Republic (CAR), Mali and other countries whose leaders have reportedly become very worried that the developments in Russia would bring an end to Wagner’s operations in their respective […]
Five African leaders seeking to help bring an end to the war in Ukraine arrived in Kyiv on a peace mission on Friday (16 June) as the Ukrainian capital city was rocked by explosions and the blaring of air raid sirens. Last month, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had indicated that his Russian and Ukrainian […]