Burkina Faso’s transitional government has granted a mining license to Russian mining company Nordgold for a major gold project expected…
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The Niger State Government says it is in talks with Russia to explore investment opportunities in sunflower oil production and other agro-industrial investments in the East European Nation.
Russia has rejected a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to update its assessment of the health effects of nuclear weapons…
Russia’s state-controlled telecoms giant said Saturday that its underwater cable in the Baltic Sea had been damaged by an “external impact.”
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Russia’s decade-long support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad ended in a shocking collapse when a swift rebel offensive toppled his…
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering a disruption of the global wheat supply and exacerbating the continent’s wheat deficit crisis, Africa’s…
Officials from Russia and Burkina Faso met in Moscow to discuss the expansion of military cooperation, underscoring Russia’s increasing efforts to assert its influence in Africa, particularly through military and security partnerships.
“China is economically more or less dominant in [Africa], which brought in quite a lot of influence, so now they are expanding their efforts in security affairs,” Earl Conteh-Morgan, a specialist in Chinese-African relations at the University of South Florida, told France 24.
Control of the sprawling site, which can accommodate as many as 4,000 miners, has changed hands several times in recent years, as violent extremists associated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have fought civilians, government forces and each other for a share of the spoils.