Vol 56 No 5 | UGANDARUSSIAOIL AND GAS Museveni gets his refinery 6th March 2015 Doubts surround both the Russian contract and the supposed benefit and even viability of the oil discoveries A Russian state company under European Union sanctions has won the contract to build an oil refinery on the shore of Lake Albert. The contract is symptomatic of...
Vol 66 No 10 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICRWANDARUSSIA Touadéra’s allies in Moscow and Kigali back his third-term aim 13th May 2025 Defying local and foreign enforcers, activists protest against the President’s anti-constitutional plans Hundreds of activists took to the streets of Bangui on 4 April to oppose President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s plan to run for an unconstitutional third term with the support...
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 48 No 9 | NAMIBIARUSSIA Going nuclear Russian-style 27th April 2007 Russia hopes to buy uranium from Africa and sell it generators, as nuclear power comes back into fashion. It has made offers to Angola (AC Vol 48 No...
Vol 64 No 2 | RUSSIAAFRICA IN 2023 Moscow's goals are global not local 6th January 2023 President Putin's backing for authoritarian regimes in West and Central Africa bolsters his confrontation with France and the EU The Kremlin is working hard to diversify its influence in Africa and involve more of the Russian state in it, as far as international sanctions imposed after the...