Diplomatic Influence in the Sahel Region
Serving Objective 16: Entrenching Russian influence in sub-Saharan Africa
23 Sep 2023. Russia signs a deal with its three proxy regimes in West Africa – the ones in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – by which it will deploy its “telecommunications and remote-sensing satellites” over the three countries. The satellites are going to monitor the three countries border areas and support the three regimes’ anti-insurgency operations among other tasks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/world/africa/russia-satellite-west-africa.html
Diplomatic Subversion vs. US and Israel
Serving Objective 5: Thwarting policies of the US and its allies in the MENA region
24 Sep 2024. Moscow condemns Israel’s airstrikes against Hezbollah, calling them “indiscriminate.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/kremlin-says-israeli-strikes-lebanon-risk-destabilising-middle-east-2024-09-24/
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