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2023-03-21 Africa North

Russia records a victory in the battle for Africa

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Posted by badanov 2023-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Russia and Africa are economic competitors. They both export resources and import consumer goods, technology and food. Thanks to the war, both Russia and Africa also import low end military goods from despots.

The biggest effect the war has had on Africa is to drive up the price of imported grain and seed oils, increasing both hunger and poverty.

Russia's biggest export to Africa is the Wagner mercenaries who murder the local population for the local despot and take mineral concessions (gold, diamonds, oil, gas) as payment. A classic neocolonialist setup.

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-21 02:38|| 2023-03-21 02:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian mercenaries accused of deadly attacks on mines on Sudan-CAR border
Russian mercenaries have mounted a series of bloody attacks on artisanal mines in the lawless border zones between Sudan and Central African Republic (CAR) in an effort to plunder the region’s valuable gold trade, witnesses and experts have said.

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-21 04:19|| 2023-03-21 04:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Gunmen kill 9 Chinese at mine in Central African Republic
The Chinese government has condemned the killing of nine Chinese nationals at a mining site in the Central African Republic (CAR), where a civil war is raging, and the president of China, Xi Jinping, called on Monday for the perpetrators to be "severely punished".

Gunmen stormed a Chinese-operated gold mining site that had recently been launched in Central African Republic, killing nine Chinese nationals and wounding two others Sunday, authorities said.

However, the rebel coalition initially blamed by some for the attack put out a statement later in the day. Without providing evidence, it accused Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group of being behind the violence.

The attack early Sunday came just days after gunmen kidnapped three Chinese nationals in the country's west near the border with Cameroon, prompting President Faustin Archange Touadera to plan a trip to China in a bid to reassure investors.

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-21 04:23|| 2023-03-21 04:23|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ A fight (once again) for the gold, minerals, and diamonds of Africa. Stay out of it !

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-21 05:55|| 2023-03-21 05:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia has plenty of cool natural resources, but either oligarchs are in the way or several meters of frozen tundra.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-21 07:20|| 2023-03-21 07:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Wagner operations in Africa

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-21 09:26|| 2023-03-21 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 If Africans never get their act together I think it's reasonable to assume that French Foreign Legion, Wagner, China or any number of other colonial/neo-colonial powers will be there to take advantage.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-21 12:51|| 2023-03-21 12:51|| Front Page Top

#8 #3 Gunmen kill 9 Chinese at mine in Central African Republic

Only 9?

Posted by Woodrow 2023-03-21 19:31|| 2023-03-21 19:31|| Front Page Top

#9 or several meters of frozen tundra.

The Russians have been exceedingly frustrated for two decades that global warming is actually not a thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-21 22:33|| 2023-03-21 22:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Confucius say, "Poor Mistah Kurtz,
Receiving his horrid deserts
So far up the creek
He was nearly unique,
With no friends for to tend to his shirts!"

Posted by Climp Panda3084 2023-03-21 22:41|| 2023-03-21 22:41|| Front Page Top

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