Russian actors have played a leading role in seeding and amplifying false narratives around Burkina Faso’s military junta. The junta, in turn, has been among the most vocal supporters of Moscow’s growing security presence in Africa.
🇨🇦#Canada PM, Mark Carney's speech @weforum.org #Davos confirms #Africa's long-held view of a fractured global order.
The continent must build pragmatic sovereignty through regional resilience.
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Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s departure from the Economic Community of West African States marked a significant pivot away from the West & toward Russia ⬇️
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Wagner’s Bloody Legacy in Mali: Torture, Executions, and a Trail of Fear
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Anyone tut-tutting about “Church teaching on the right of nations to defend their borders” is going to be remembered in the end as morally equivalent to the anti-abolitionist Catholic bishops who obsessed over “Church teaching on slavery” completely apathetic to the reality of slavery
Wagner mercenaries are turning West Africa’s gold fields into killing grounds. From Sudan to the Central African Republic (CAR), Russian-backed forces loot, murder, and smuggle gold and other resources to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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Africa Center for Strategic Studies
It calls itself the African Initiative.
But it’s run by Russian intelligence and linked to Wagner's #disinfo legacy.
Joint findings by Viginum, FCDO and EEAS expose it as a Kremlin FIMI tool, not a news agency.
#DontBeDeceived
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VIGINUM
French agency @viginum.bsky.social releases a report, including contributions from the FCDO 🇬🇧 and the EEAS 🇪🇺, on African Initiative, a Russian 'news agency' considered to be one of the main vehicles for the rearticulation of Russia's influence in post-Prigozhin Africa.
Canada PM's speech at Davos confirms Africa's long-held view of a fractured global order. The continent must build pragmatic sovereignty through regional resilience.
Russian-backed forces are turning West Africa’s gold mines into killing grounds. They loot, murder, and smuggle gold to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
