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PODCAST | France vs Russia: the renewed scramble for Africa

African countries are becoming more and more receptive to Russian overtures, especially from a security perspective

13 June 2022 - 19:19

Africa is “the last business frontier” and that is why geopolitical tensions between countries like France and Russia include a renewed scramble for Africa. This is the view of Koffi Kouakou, an Africa analyst and senior fellow at the Centre of Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He unravelled this claim in detail in the latest episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE...

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