That is what Russia needs: It needs funding, and it needs influence. It helps its war in Ukraine,” Filatova, a senior research associate at the University of Cape Town, told CNN from South Africa. In ...

So one of the main ways the Soviets gained influence was through ... studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia before returning home. Across West Africa, including in Mali, former students ...

This monthly report from Hudson’s Zineb Riboua examines Russia’s growing influence in the Middle East and Africa. Putin ...

Moscow is seen as a more friendly ally by African nations that treats them as equals in a multipolar world The burden of tough economic sa ...

Russia's exit from Syria will disrupt supplies to its forces in Africa. But as Moscow's fortunes in the resource-rich ...

Renovations of a disused Libyan airbase by Russian forces could point to Moscow's increasing attempts to assert power in ...

For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their ...

In late September, a US HC-103J Super Hercules spotted four foreign vessels operating about 440 miles southwest of St.

Russia is struggling to retain two military bases in Syria that have enabled it to project influence in the Middle East and ...

amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent. As Russia’s foothold in Africa expands – notably in the mineral-rich Sahel region that is beset by recurring ...