💬 “Russia is gaining influence and seeking to further that without investing anything… It’s trying to shift [African countries] from democracy to military governments,” Dr Joseph Siegle, director of research at the AfricaACSS tells theipaper
Certainly Russia-aligned countries in the area, Mali and Burkina Faso, which have both recently had military coups and expelled French and British troops in favour of Wagner partnerships, have declared their support for the military junta in Niger.
Though Dr Siegle represents a US government that is eager to maintain Western influence on the continent, he dismisses as Russian disinformation the suggestion that the West’s colonial past with these African countries is a driving factor behind France and the UK being evicted from the Sahel. “You don’t have rule of law with these juntas that can’t run economies, and you’re going back to the 1960s or 1980s, and that didn’t work out very well,” concluded Dr Siegle on the ultimately negative impacts of Russian influence on democracy and prosperity in Africa., however, saw far less engagement from Africa than expected with only 17 heads of the 54 African states attending – down from 43 who attended the first conference in 2019.
This may be due to African leaders seeing that there’s little to no benefit being gained from closer ties to Russia. At the 2019 summit, promises were made byAnother more significant factor has been Russia’s decision to
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