Our Correspondent | Africa Guardian Despite the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group continues to maintain its presence and operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali, where the mercenaries remain favored by local leaders. In an effort to centralize and reorganize its operations, Moscow has sought to merge Wagner’s African interests into a new entity, the…
Leaders from 20 African nations attended the Russia summit, though leaders from said countries ended up leaving Moscow with little to show for their demands to resume a deal which kept grain flowing from Ukraine. African leaders are leaving two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal…
Russian oil is heading to West Africa for the first time since 2018 as Western sanctions force Moscow to look for new buyers, according to Bloomberg. On Friday, a tanker named Theseus arrived in Ghana, carrying about 600,000 barrels of Russian crude. The oil was supposed to be pumped into storage tanks at the Tema Oil Refinery, people familiar…