{"id":27563,"date":"2023-01-11T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/us-and-russia-clash-over-violent-extremism-in-africa"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:02:11","slug":"us-and-russia-clash-over-violent-extremism-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/us-and-russia-clash-over-violent-extremism-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"US and Russia clash over violent extremism in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The United States accused Russian military contractors backed by the Kremlin on Tuesday of interfering in the internal affairs of African countries and \u201cincreasing the likelihood that violent extremism will grow\u201d in the Sahel region which is facing increasing attacks and deteriorating security — an allegation Russia denied.<\/b><\/p>\n

U.S. deputy ambassador Richard Mills lashed out at the Wagner Group at a U.N. Security Council meeting on West Africa and the Sahel, accusing its paramilitary forces of failing to address the extremist threat, robbing countries of their resources, committing human rights abuses, and endangering the safety and security of U.N. peacekeepers and staff.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s political counsellor Isis Jaraud-Darnault echoed Mills, saying \u201cthe model” used by Wagner mercenaries has proven \u201ctotally ineffective in combating terrorism.\u201d He cited the \u201cnefarious\u201d and devastating impact of its work and human rights violations, including the alleged killing of over 30 civilians in Mali, and its pillaging of natural resources.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s deputy U.N. ambassador James Kariuki cited the deterioration of security, especially in Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin, and the fear of instability spreading to West African coastal countries. \u201cYou cannot ignore the destabilizing role the Wagner Group plays in the region. They are part of the problem, not the solution,\u201d he told the council.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s deputy U.N. ambassador Anna Evstigneeva rejected attempts \u201cto besmirch Russian assistance to Mali,\u201d where Moscow has a bilateral agreement to assist the transitional government, \u201cand in other countries in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome countries once again today declared that Russia apparently is pillaging and looting the resources of Africa and is facilitating the growth of the terrorist threat,\u201d she said, accusing those unnamed nations of doing the same thing \u201cthroughout the world and in Africa\u201d, especially in neighbouring Libya which destabilized the entire area.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccusations against Russia are just astonishing, given common sense,\u201d and undermine African leaders trying to resolve their own problems and decide who they want to cooperate with, she said.<\/p>\n

Evstigneeva never mentioned the Wagner Group by name. The group is run by a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and its mercenaries are accused by Western countries and U.N. experts of numerous human rights cases of abuse throughout Africa, including in the Central African Republic, Libya and Mali.<\/p>\n

Giovanie Biha, the deputy head of the U.N. Office for West Africa and the Sahel, told the council that \u201cinsecurity has again deteriorated in large parts of the region,\u201d due to activities of armed groups, violent extremists and criminal networks.<\/p>\n

As a result, she said, more than 10,000 schools across the Sahel have closed, leaving millions of children without an education, and nearly 7,000 health centres have shut down.<\/p>\n

Armed groups are fighting for supremacy and control of resources, she said, and the central Sahel is facing \u201cunprecedented levels of security and humanitarian challenges, socio-political instability, further compounded by the impact of climate change, and food insecurity which was exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that increasing attacks in countries along the Gulf of Guinea are threatening transport arteries to landlocked countries further north.<\/p>\n

According to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres\u2019 latest report issued this week, over 18.6 million people in the region are experiencing \u201csevere food insecurity,\u201d an increase of 5.6 million since the end of June 2022, with Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria being the hardest hit. And about 6.3 million people are displaced across the Sahel, an increase of 300,000 since June.<\/p>\n

West Africa\u2019s latest wave of coups kicked off in Mali in 2020, followed by another in Guinea in 2021, and then in Burkina Faso in January 2022.<\/p>\n

Omar Alieu Touray, president of the West African regional group ECOWAS’ commission, told the council he was pleased to report that transitions to critical elections in the three countries are \u201con course,\u201d with voting to take place in the next two years.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. The United States accused Russian military contractors backed by the Kremlin on Tuesday of interfering in the internal affairs of African countries and \u201cincreasing the likelihood that violent extremism will grow\u201d in the Sahel region which is facing increasing attacks and deteriorating security — an allegation Russia denied. 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