{"id":16054,"date":"2022-02-13T14:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/russia-seeks-role-as-africas-security-broker-amid-wave-of-coups"},"modified":"2022-02-13T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:18:34","slug":"russia-seeks-role-as-africas-security-broker-amid-wave-of-coups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/russia-seeks-role-as-africas-security-broker-amid-wave-of-coups","title":{"rendered":"Russia Seeks Role As Africa\u2019s Security Broker Amid Wave of Coups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Russia has recently set its sights on the African continent, signing various political and military deals. Moscow\u2019s renewed interest has been linked to the latest spate of coups as it seeks to gain a foothold.<\/p>\n

In early January, hundreds of Russian military advisors were deployed to Mali. The contractors from the controversial Wagner Group were invited to \u201chelp Mali train its security forces,\u201d according to the Malian army.<\/p>\n

This raised a few eyebrows: The assignment was previously the job of the European Training Mission to Mali (EUTM). After Colonel Assimi Goita overthrew late President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in the 2020 Malian coup \u2014 and was later sworn in as president following a second coup in May 2021 \u2014 he faced regional and international sanctions for extending a proposed timeline for presidential elections.<\/p>\n

The junta regime responded by banning German military planes from Mali\u2019s air space, expelling the ambassador of former colonial power France and calling for the immediate withdrawal of Danish forces.<\/p>\n

Mali\u2019s southern neighborBurkina Faso witnessed its own coup in January. Like their counterparts in Mali, the Burkinabe military have defied calls to hand over power to a civilian government. They, too, have oriented themselves toward Moscow.<\/p>\n

A link between foreign training and coups<\/b><\/p>\n

Sudan, Chad, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau have also experienced coups in the past year. One thing they all have in common: Most of the soldiers behind the coups had received military training sponsored by Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe qualities that recommend them for foreign training are the same ones that make them effective coup leaders,\u201d Judd Devermont, the director of the US-based think tank Africa Program for Center for Strategic and International Studies, told DW in late 2021.<\/p>\n

The two Malians believed to be the chief architects behind the 2020 coup, Malick Diaw and Sadio Camara, each spent about a year at the Moscow Higher Military Command School. These same soldiers also took part in training missions organized by the US and the EU. Following the coup, Media Operations Branch Chief for AFRICOM, Kelly Cahalan, told DW: \u201cThe mutiny act in Mali is strongly condemned and inconsistent with US military training and education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moscow reviving old Soviet ties<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Irina Filatova from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia aims to gain a foothold on the continent as a security broker in order to \u201cconfront the collective West\u201d and project the image of a \u201cdefender of Africa\u201d \u2014 an objective which the West has seemingly failed to achieve.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s far from the first time Russia has dabbled in African affairs: In the 1950s, the Kremlin backed liberation movements across the continent. At the time, Russia\u2019s main export was light-to-medium range arms and ammunition.<\/p>\n

And Moscow\u2019s influence was welcomed by many. \u201cWithout the firm stand of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the heyday of the anti-colonial struggle, many of our countries would never have seen the light of independence,\u201d Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of Nigeria\u2019s central bank, told DW.<\/p>\n

But this support waned following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Over the past two decades, current President Vladimir Putin has tried to revive these independence-era connections and act as a foil of-sorts to the West\u2019s neocolonial policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that Russia is in a fairly strong position, Africa can benefit from mutually beneficial investments and trade cooperation,\u201d said Mailafia.<\/p>\n

Russia has officially remained silent on its policies for Africa. But, as Filatova sees it, Moscow is relying on private military companies like the Wagner Group to act as \u201cdoor-openers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficially [the military groups] are not incorporated in the strategy at all, but what we see is that they always come first when there\u2019s some instability and then they help secure those in power who have built relationships with Russia,\u201d she told DW.<\/p>\n

The Wagner Group is also active in the Central African Republic (CAR), where it has been accused of serious human rights violations. But the paramilitary fighters most notably drew attention after they starred in a locally-produced film, acting as defenders of the nation against CAR rebels. Thousands of people flocked to the main stadium in the capital Bangui to catch a glimpse of the premiere in May 2021. Before this episode, the Wagner fighters had kept a comparatively low profile in the theatres of war on the African continent.<\/p>\n

Back in business<\/b><\/p>\n

For the most part, Moscow has been able to fly under the radar for the past two decades, quietly cutting nuclear power and arms exporting deals. Russia is currently the biggest exporter of weapons to the African continent. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute\u2019s (SIPRI) annual 2020 report, Africa accounted for 18% of all Russian arms exports between 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n

The first arms deal to be made public took place in April 2020, when Russia\u2019s only state-owned arms seller, Rosoboronexport, announced the sale of a Russian-made assault boat to an unnamed sub-Saharan African country.<\/p>\n

A few months earlier in 2019, the first ever Russia-Africa Economic Forum was held in Sochi, with many big names in African politics in attendance. Russia used the occasion to elegantly tout its track record in Africa. By then it had made a name for itself as an ally of multiple nations as they battled against relentless insurgencies: In 2018, Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania all appealed to Moscow for help combating the so-called Islamic State and al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

Beyond military services, Moscow has also carved a niche selling nuclear technology to developing nations. Zambia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Egypt and Nigeria are among those in the market for Russian-built nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n

While the details of its various policies and deals remain in the dark, at least one thing is clear: Russia is back in Africa \u2014 and it means business.<\/p>\n

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