This followed an April summit where Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pledged stronger military cooperation and closer alignment of foreign policy – notably at the UN...
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Vol 66 No 8 |
- RUSSIA
- SAHEL
Organising a summit in Moscow on 3-4 April for the foreign ministers from Mali Burkina Faso and Niger – respectively Abdoulaye Diop Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré and Bakare Yaou Sangare – Russia's veteran chief diplomat Sergei Lavrov promised a surge of support for their battles with jihadi fighters and nationalist insurgents...
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On 9 November Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met his Congo-K counterpart Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner at the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Sochi...
Vol 65 No 20 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Logically also uncovered communications between André Dembélé and Siaka Coulibaly a Burkinabé political analyst and government advisor looking at ways to form new alliances with senior Russian officials including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...
Vol 65 No 16 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Between February 2022 and July 2023 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made eight trips to Africa and he has made at least six more since then...
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...