Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of the Kremlin’s powerful Security Council, has warned that Moscow could annex Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Reuters news agency reported. Medvedev, who has cast himself as one of Moscow’s most hawkish political voices since Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year,…
East African countries defied economic turbulence occasioned by the Russia-Ukraine war and inflationary pressures to post a 17 percent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. According to the latest statistics from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), investment inflows into Africa were impacted by the difficult economic environment that characterized a…
Russia’s state The Russia-1 TV channel broadcast a program in which Wagner’s boss was branded ‘a traitor’ and said a criminal investigation was continuing over the mutiny. In this handout photo taken from a video released by the Prigozhin Press Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company. Russian state TV has…
Russia unleashed a new air strike on Ukraine overnight, killing at least one person in a combined assault of cruise missiles and attack drones, according to Ukrainian authorities. The Ukrainian military reported shooting down four out of six missiles launched during the attack, which the air force said lasted approximately six hours, and 10 out…
