A recent Pentagon report indicates that the African continent is currently the focus of Moscow’s interest, as part of its strategy to compete with the influence of the United States and its European allies. According to the report, Moscow’s Africa policy has increased considerably since Russia’s ‘private contingent’ in Africa was placed under the direct responsibility of the Russian Defence Ministry and intelligence services following the death of Wagner’s chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Terrorism continues to spread in Central Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso and Central African Republic, but also in Congo-Kinshasa. A regional instability that worries at the highest level the United States and the major European powers. And there’s a new challenge in central Africa, as a consequence of the antiterrorist fight.
After having disappeared from the radar for years, particularly since the overthrow in October 2014 of the former Burkinabe dictator, Blaise Compaoré, of whom he was the “shadow adviser”, the Mauritanian Mustapha Oueld Limam Chaffi resurfaced as Qatar’s secret envoy.
Russia is performing a great return to the African continent, through the strengthening of its diplomatic and military presence and of its economic investments.
