Russian operations in Africa
Pointing to the coup in the central African state of Gabon, Joana de Deus Pereira, Senior Research Fellow at RUSI Europe, told GZERO Media that anti-Western disinformation campaigns (…) pervade many countries, particularly in West Africa, and “prompted the end of the Barkhane operation [an anti-insurgency mission in West Africa led by France] and also led to the current withdrawal of UN troops in Mali, which is one of the biggest retreats of international personnel.
