Since 2020, Russia has been expanding its presence in the Sahel region, seizing the initiative from Paris and Washington and enhancing its standing across sub-Saharan Africa. Recognizing that mounting ...
It has been about three years since then-Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said his country would turn around the security fortunes of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and strengthen ...
Following the 2022-2023 coups in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, the junta regimes turned to Russia, China, and even the US.