DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 11 | RUSSIAUKRAINEAFRICA Power politics could derail vital grain deal for Africa 23rd May 2023 Moscow may cancel the foodstuffs supply accord as Ukraine steps up its diplomacy in Africa and the Global South The future of the UN-brokered grain deal that has allowed over 30 million tonnes of foodstuffs to be exported from Ukraine across the Black Sea to Africa and the Middle East since ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 3 | ERITREARUSSIA Welcoming Russia's Lavrov, President Issayas boosts his regional role 31st January 2023 Regional and international officials say the Asmara regime has been greatly strengthened by Ethiopia's civil war Thanking Moscow's 'Eritrean friends for their consistent support of Russian initiatives in the UN,' Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sketched out closer ties between the two countrie...
Vol 64 No 3 | RUSSIAAFRICA President Putin's Africa summit in July will be key diplomatic test 26th January 2023 Foreign Minister Lavrov tours Southern Africa as Moscow wins more battles in information war with Europe and the US Russian officials are confident that South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend President Vladimir Putin's Russia-Africa summit due to be held in late July in St Petersbu...
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 versi...
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 invasion of Ukrain...
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 24 | ALGERIARUSSIAEUROPEAN UNION Moscow mounts a military show in the desert 22nd November 2022 President Tebboune's anti-terror mission with Russian forces unsettles Morocco and European governments Sending some important diplomatic signals, Algeria's joint anti-terrorist drills with Russian troops – known as Desert Shield 2022 – in the Bechar region near the borde... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 16 | UNITED STATESRUSSIAFRANCEAFRICA President Macron and Foreign Minister Lavrov vie for influence in pan-African tours this week 26th July 2022 Russia and its western rivals are ratcheting up the blame game over deepening international financial and production crises On parallel tracks across Africa, this week France and Russia are trying to win the information war over which state or alliance of states is responsible for the galloping food, fe... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICARUSSIA How manganese pipeline helps the ANC 23rd June 2022 The ruling party's ambivalence on Ukraine reflects its parlous finances as well as its internal feuding and ideological posturing A transparency law on political party funding has embarrassed the ruling African National Congress by revealing its links to Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch under global sanc...
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 13 | RUSSIAEUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Key Putin ally Prigozhin loses appeal on Wagner mercenary sanctions 14th June 2022 Geopolitical rivalries are driving courtroom fights against Moscow's allies linked to private security and mining operations in conflict zones in Africa The European Court of Justice's rejection of an appeal against sanctions by Kremlin favourite Yevgeny Prigozhin, who controls private military contractor the Wagner Group, will com... READ FOR FREE
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, who is also politic...
