Moscow is intent on filling the vacuum as three Sahelian military regimes worry Paris and Washington by cutting regional ties, Announcing their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) without delay , the juntas ruling Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have sent a shockwave through the regional bloc, which was already struggling to persuade them to restore civilian rule.
, Central African Republic, Sudan and Mali are the most lucrative African states for Russia s Wagner Group, according to the Blood Gold report published this week by a consortium of international researchers and human rights activists.
A leak from the Russian group s propaganda arm reveals payments for videos by West African bloggers and influencers on social media platforms, The Wagner Group has been paying West African social and digital media influencers and broadcasters for videos and blogs attacking France and supporting Russian narratives on the Ukraine war, according to documents leaked by a disgruntled former group employee to Africa Confidential.
The President is stronger as a result of changes in western policy so long as he can navigate multiple regional rivalries and manage security risks, The United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, ambassadors in Bangui, the Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and a slew of regional bodies met on 23 October to assess how the Luanda roadmap, and the Khartoum Agreement between the government and the plethora of armed groups had been implemented.
Moscow must dispose of the remnants of its most famous mercenary outfit and has some hard choices to make, The crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin s jet on 25 August was both expected and full of surprises. It was expected because no one believed President Vladimir Putin would do business as usual with someone who had tried to overthrow him. Equally, it was surprising that a man as paranoid as the Wagner Group boss would travel with his closest associates in one aircraft so soon after publicly humiliating Putin, his minister of defence and his head of the armed forces.