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...
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 63 No 12 | RUSSIAEUROPEAN UNIONAFRICAN UNION Deepening food and fuel crisis prompts emergency summits 2nd June 2022 AU Chief Macky Sall to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin over trapped grain stocks after EU pledges more cash for African farmers In a bid to unblock vital stocks of wheat and fertiliser, Senegal's President Macky Sall is to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on 3 June. Sall,...
Vol 64 No 3 | RUSSIASAHEL Resurrecting the 'Russosphere' 2nd February 2023 The spike in pro-Russian sentiment in the Sahel has been linked to an obscure Belgian activist, Luc Michel. Describing himself as a 'Stalinist', Michel, 65, founded a Belgian...
Vol 57 No 20 | GAMBIA Jammeh tilts the playing field 7th October 2016 An increasingly isolated and paranoid President has become even more dictatorial in the lead-up to national elections The last time Gambia went to the polls, in November 2011, the incumbent President Yahya Jammeh won 72% of the vote, crushing two below-par opposition coalitions. The Commonwealth...
