In March Biya's Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo ordered measures to prevent soldiers defecting to join Russian mercenaries in President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine...
Kagame's war aims are probably closer to the tactics of Russia's Vladimir Putin in Ukraine's Donbas...
It was also the go-to lobby shop for Russian oligarchs and firms linked to President Vladimir Putin...
It is some achievement to be as warmly received by President Macron as by President Vladimir Putin to be friendly with Angolan and Rwandan presidents and he is celebrating the consolidation of Chad-CAR cooperation...
Following the collapse of Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria President Vladimir Putin is likely to pressure Algeria to be even more supportive...
Addressing the State Duma in Moscow in September Obiang thanked President Vladimir Putin for providing instructors to strengthen his country's national defences...
At the beginning of the year President Mahamat Kaka was received by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow (AC Vol 65 No 9 President Mahamat considers the Russian bear hug)...
Following the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin Russia's Ministry of Defence and the GRU military intelligence directorate took on the task of integrating much of Wagner's organisation into their new Africa Corps formation (AC Vol 65 No 18 Vladimir Putin's Kremlin builds on Wagner's propaganda legacy)...
Lavrov praised Congo-K's support for Russia-Africa cooperation and highlighted the positive impact of President Vladimir Putin's meeting with President Tshisekedi at the inaugural 2019 Russia-Africa summit in Sochi...
The Council for Social Conservative Policy founded in 2005 by the Chair of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party (under President Vladimir Putin)...
Vol 65 No 23 |
- CLIMATE CHANGE
Outgoing US President Joe Biden re-elected European Union President Ursula von der Leyen India's Narendra Modi and Russia's Vladimir Putin aren't due to attend...
Formerly contracted to Bangui as the Wagner Group (under the control of Yevgeny Prigozhin until his spectacular fall-out with Russia's President Vladimir Putin) the Russian fighters now come under the command of the defence ministry in Moscow...
Yet his political style seems to owe more and more to that of Russia's President Vladimir Putin...