Two African activists have been accused by the United States of participating in a campaign of disinformation on behalf of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who founded the mercenary group Wagner. The US State Department claimed that Kémi Séba and Nathalie Yamb “allow Kremlin-linked entities to maintain plausible deniability of Russia’s[Read More…]
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African Peacekeepers Quitting Mali
Peacekeepers from Cote d’Ivoire are among those quitting Mali just nine months into their role. In September 2021, at the United Nations, Mali’s Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, chided France for abandoning midair its campaign against the insurgency deploring the partial withdrawal of Barkhane force in his country, which has[Read More…]
Senegal’s Macky Sall: G20 To Consider AU Membership In 2023
The African Union (AU) has been demanding for several decades a seat in this exclusive intergovernmental club of nations. The age old grievance is on the verge of being resolved. In Bali, Indonesia, members of the Group of Twenty (G20), an intergovernmental forum made up of the nineteen most developed[Read More…]