The social media sandstorm of recent days typifies a 2024 Sahel where reliable information has become rare and the juntas in power are entrenched ever deeper in confrontation with Ecowas Europe and the United States while deepening ties with Russia – whose foreign minister Sergei Lavrov visited Burkina this month...
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Vol 65 No 13 |
- ZIMBABWE
- RUSSIA
Last week Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov made a three-day tour of Guinea Burkina Faso Congo-Brazzaville and Chad with military support at the top of the agenda in all cases...
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What that meant for Prigozhin's Wagner Group mercenaries and Moscow's operations in Africa was much discussed in the corridors of the summit usually out of earshot of the Russian delegation headed by foreign minister Sergei Lavrov...
Hosting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the State House in May Ruto called for a trade pact with Moscow...
On 26 June Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was on hand to tell the state-run RT station that a discontinuation of Wagner's presence specifically in Mali and the Central African Republic was out of the question...
Vol 64 No 14 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
WAGNER'S NEXT ACT IN AFRICA It is too early to conclude much about how Yevgeny Prigozhin's putsch in Russia might affect Wagner's operations in Africa but these factors could shape diplomatic and security developments: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov long distanced from Putin's inner circle may claw back some influence with Moscow's diplomats attempting to reassert their authority and credibility overseas after the embarrassing developments on 23-24 June...
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At a meeting in Moscow with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on 18 May Uganda's foreign minister Jeje Odongo told a joint news conference that he had urged parties involved to consider the plight of 'many African countries who depend on grain for wheat and bread...
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As illustrated by Hemeti's visit to Moscow in February 2022 and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Khartoum a year later Russia has warm relations with both generals...
Vol 64 No 6 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The recent hosting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the joint naval exercises with Russia and China to coincide with the first anniversary of the invasion undermine South Africa's claim to neutrality but it brings other benefits (AC Vol 63 No 9 War offers Ramaphosa more options & Vol 63 No 11 Diplomacy on ice)...
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As this cauldron bubbled Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov came to Khartoum on 9 February not quite overlapping with the Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen who visited Khartoum on 3 February...
