Vol 66 No 6 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICRUSSIA Moscow’s prisoner 21st March 2025 Belgian-Portuguese national Joseph Figueira Martin has been all but abandoned, banged up for 10 months in a Bangui military camp in the Central African Republic, awaiting trial on...
Vol 65 No 23 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICRUSSIA Touadéra’s balancing act 11th November 2024 The President walks a fine line, relying on military support from Moscow as he shores up ties with the EU and France The regime of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra may have staved off the threat of a coup d’état – unlike neighbouring Gabon and three Sahelian states – but citizens complain...
Vol 65 No 24 | GAMBIA Silence on sanctions-busting 28th November 2024 No official reaction has followed Africa Confidential and the Gambian Republic investigative website’s article on sanctions-busting by a Russian company in Banjul. The United Arab Emirates-registered company Apogee...
Vol 63 No 12 | SOUTH AFRICARUSSIA Moscow's missing tankers 9th June 2022 As Russia seeks to evade western sanctions on oil and gas exports, mystery surrounds the fate of two super-tankers loaded with 4.2 million barrels of Russian crude oil...
Vol 64 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICARUSSIAUKRAINE Kyiv and Moscow give peace mission short shrift 21st June 2023 After days of awkward and unproductive diplomacy, the economic consequences of the war will worsen for Africa – starting with the collapse of the grain deal The African peace mission to Ukraine and Russia has exposed the chasm between the two countries – with Kyiv insisting on Russian withdrawal from its territory and Moscow...
