Russia’s Africa-Based Power Takes a Beating
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Russia’s Africa-based power takes a beating
Russia’s Africa Corps is reeling after an alliance of separatist and jihadist groups in Mali launched a series of attacks on the country’s Putin-backed junta government in late April. Is this merely an instance of renewed violence in a country that has seen multiple coups this century? Or does the bruising rebuke to a feared Russian expeditionary force mark a potential crisis for one of West Africa’s most powerful — and demanding — benefactors? …
In Mali, Islamists and rebels join the military government. Moscow is currently no help.
As if it were not enough with the genocidal wars being waged in the Congo and Sudan, under the undisguised auspices of France and the United States, Tuaregs independence and Salafists affiliated with Al Qaeda launched a very strong joint offensive against the capital Bamako and other cities of Mali a week ago. With the help of Russian troops from Africa Corp, the government, exercised by a military junta, managed to preserve...
The mercenaries, whom the Kremlin had sold to the African juntas for years as a safe shield against any threat, disappeared after the first minor confrontation.
Jihadists Are on the Brink of an African Caliphate
By WSJ – Islamists in Mali have routed Kremlin-backed forces after confounding efforts by the West to uproot al Qaeda and its offshoots in the Sahel. Al-Qaeda-led militants bent on building an African caliphate are closing in on Mali’s capital and forcing a retreat of the Russian mercenaries who were meant to stanch the spread of the Islamist group across the country. In some of the fiercest attacks in more than a decade this week, rebels rou…
After a massive offensive by the rebels on 25 April, the regime is trying to reorganize itself. Between a military response and a negotiated solution, the margin of manoeuvre is narrow.
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