Before Russia invaded Ukraine, triggering a disruption of the global wheat supply and exacerbating the continent’s wheat deficit crisis, Africa’s…
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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.
In the severely-hit Orenburg Region, more than 6,100 people have been evacuated from the flooded areas and a total of 33 temporary accommodation centers deployed for 33,000 people, the ministry said.
Niger Republic’s Defense Ministry says it would intensify joint efforts to stabilize the region with the Russian counterpart. The Russian Ministry of Defense has swiftly confirmed the agreements.
For grain traders trying to map out their 2024 shipping costs, there are generally two interlinked equations to consider: the supply of bulk carrier ships and the demand for cargo loaded on them, and the extent to which that supply-demand balance will be disrupted by various grain-related and external factors.
Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has fined Google 4.6 billion rubles ($51 million) for repeated refusal to delete YouTube videos disseminating false information about Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
Russia on Saturday launched its largest drone attack against Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, since the start of its invasion, according to local officials.
US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, on Friday, insisted that Washington and Beijing had to reestablish “healthy economic relations” after a period of strained ties between the world’s two biggest economies.