Vol 65 No 18 | RUSSIAAFRICA Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin builds on Wagner’s propaganda legacy 3rd September 2024 Prigozhin’s African network survives him as Moscow’s outreach expands disinformation about the west and support for military juntas One year after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s dramatic demise, the legacy of his efforts to frame Russia as a liberator of Africa from western neocolonialism lives on.
Vol 41 No 25 | GAMBIA Under-confident 22nd December 2000 Are relations improving between Gambia and the Commonwealth? In 1995, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) was set up to look at members' attitudes to democracy.
Vol 57 No 25 | GAMBIA Gambia at the cliff-edge 16th December 2016 Jammeh made history twice: first by conceding defeat and then by changing his mind. Presidents are trying to talk him down It would take a mere seven days for President Yahya Jammeh to pronounce the unthinkable and request the impossible. On 2 December, he appeared on television to tell...
Vol 49 No 11 | SOUTH AFRICARUSSIA Nuclear nexus 23rd May 2008 South African officials visiting Russia on 22-23 May were in damage-control mode. In March, Eskom let it be known that the Russian nuclear reactor builder Atomstroyexport (ASE), would...
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...