This marks Russia’s first military base in Africa, a significant step in expanding its global military presence. The deal was finalized after Sudan’s foreign minister visited Moscow ...

Religious extremists, military officers and Russian mercenaries have all trained their ambitions on this broad belt of Africa known as the Sahel, wedged between the Sahara to the north and the ...

Russia has signed agreements for military cooperation with over 40 African countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this on Friday in St Petersburg. President Putin made the ...

Even as it pounds Ukraine, Russia is expanding its military footprint in Africa, delivering sophisticated weaponry to sub-Saharan conflict zones where a Kremlin-controlled armed force is on the rise.

More than 40 warplanes and over 1,000 personnel from four nations are taking part in Atlantic Trident 25, a major ...

Russia is reducing its military footprint in Syria and shifting some of its assets from the Middle Eastern country to Africa, flight data and satellite imagery analyzed by RFE/RL appear to show.

Russia is landing military aircraft on newly refurbished runways under its control in Libya as the Kremlin quickly expands its footprint in Africa, satellite images show. Telegraph analysis of ...

On June 25, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian army nuclear, chemical and biological protection forces, accused the U.S. of expanding bioweapons research in Africa.

1, would increase the number of active troops by 180,000. It marks Putin’s third official expansion of Russia’s military since the war with Ukraine began in early 2022. In August 2022 ...

This was first done primarily through the Wagner Group, a private military company ... said the goal of the expansion was to contribute to the strengthening of Russia-Africa ties; to improve ...

The Russian military’s daily toll in men and equipment raises concerns about whether this expansion will improve its overall effectiveness. With over 600,000 casualties from the fighting in ...