Both Wagner and the Africa Corps in Africa are under the purview of General Yunus-Bek Bamatgireyevich Yevkurov a veteran GRU officer who is seen as Russian President Vladimir Putin's point man on military affairs in Africa (AC Vol 66 No 1 Wagner Group is struggling to sell arms to Tshisekedi)...
The Wagner Group now run by Pavel Prigozhin son of the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin who died in a plane crash on 23 August 2023 is so well established in Bangui that it has been able to resist assimilation into Russia's Africa Corps under the GRU's military intelligence directorate (AC Vol 65 No 18 Vladimir Putin's Kremlin builds on Wagner's propaganda legacy)...
France and the European Union appear to have given up on CAR after failing to woo the President away from the Kremlin as illustrated by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's deal with President Vladimir Putin in January...
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)...