African leaders come under missile attack in Kyiv en route on “peace mission” to Russia
South African Republic Cyril Ramaphosa and other African leaders have come under a Russian ballistic missile attack on…
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Egypt nearly supplied rockets to Russia, agreed to arm Ukraine instead, leak shows – WP
Egypt paused a plan to secretly supply rockets to Russia last month following talks with senior US officials…
Wagner owner Prigozhin eyes Africa after setbacks in Ukraine – Bloomberg
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, is reportedly preparing to scale back his private…
Moscow Patriarchate says it has churches in 19 African countries, angering Orthodox world but giving FSB expanded possibilities
At the end of 2019, the Patriarch of Alexandria, whose canonical territory encompasses all of Africa, recognized the…
Russian university accused of pressure on African students to join the war – The Daily Beast
Russian officials at the Southern Federal University (SFedU) in the city of Rostov-on-Don, near the border with Ukraine,…
Ukraine launches initiative to feed African countries on Holodomor commemoration day
Ukraine has raised $150 mn at the inaugural summit of the Grain from Ukraine initiative, aimed at overcoming…
Moscow Patriarchate moved into Africa to provide cover for FSB officers and PMCs, not to punish anyone over Ukraine, Horyevoy says
The Moscow Patriarchate has insisted and most people have accepted the idea that Kirill has expanded the presence…
Why Facebook is more revealing on nudity than on Russian disinformation
Even though Facebook and the Russian government have their Brussels offices next door to each other, they appear…
Kremlin rapidly losing control of ‘private military company’ story
Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International…
Russian private military companies proliferate ‘to make money on war’
Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence…
Russia’s private military companies a more toxic form of Latin American death squads, Pastukhov says
Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not…
Moscow dispatches even more ‘private military companies’ to Syria and Africa
Moscow has now dispatched another of what it calls “a private military company” to fight in Syria, a…
Moscow inserts political operatives into African countries where elections are scheduled
Even as the United States and other Western countries wrestle with the question of how involved Russian operatives…