Activists claim that President Vladimir Putin who had made advance payments based on Zuma's personal assurances about the Rosatom deal is allowing Russian money to find its way to the ANC's foes in the EFF and the right-wing lobby group AfriForum...
Vol 59 No 16 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The secretary general of Kabila's People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy Shadary may be intended to keep the presidential seat warm for Kabila much in the way that Russian President Vladimir Putin stepped down as president to avoid breaching a two-term limit before taking the job again after a period away...
Later in November El Beshir vented his anger with Washington during a public meeting with Vladimir Putin asking Russia's President 'to protect Sudan from American aggressions'...
Vol 59 No 4 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Ramaphosa also told reporters in Davos that the nuclear deal with Vladimir Putin's Russia would not go ahead...
Vol 58 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Much of the raison d'être of the controversial 1 trillion rand (US$72 billion) nuclear deal with Russia rests on President Jacob Zuma's belief that he owes his life to President Vladimir Putin say sources close to the Zuma family...
Yet much as President Vladimir Putin may like dealing with a strongman a range of sources have told Africa Confidential that there remain limits to Moscow's commitment to Haftar and to a much wider role in Libya...
He has developed close relations with both Russia's President Vladimir Putin and new United States President Donald Trump...
Haftar already enjoys strong support from two other presidents Egypt's Abdel Fatah el Sisi and Russia's Vladimir Putin both of whom are close to Trump...
Talks with Moscow on financing the project are now however reported to be back on after President Vladimir Putin invited Museveni to Russia in November...
His handshake with President Vladimir Putin followed preparation of the ground by his closest advisor Fouad Ali el Hima and the seasoned royal Foreign Affairs Advisor Taieb Fassi-Fihri...
