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 ...

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

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

Besides, Russia has successfully spread an image as a better security provider in Africa. For Africa, French withdrawal means the end of France’s decades-long influence. However, in Mali ...

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

Panelists discuss how a second Trump administration could reshape U.S.-Africa relations, whether security, economic, and diplomatic engagement will deepen or decline, and how to define the U.S.

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 ...

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

aiming to reduce French influence over this critical resource. Analysts say this forms part of a broader Russian geopolitical strategy to challenge Western dominance over Africa's minerals and ...

while Russian troops have flooded in to help battle armed groups. Chad, Senegal and Ivory Coast have since followed suit. “For these countries, it’s about sovereignty,” Francophone Africa ...