A New Doctrine? Russia and the New Scramble for Africa

Russia’s interest in Africa has been re-ignited by the clear opportunity to establish influence in a region that is increasingly becoming vulnerable to a renewed global scramble for its resources. In July 2000, the constitutive act of the African Union was adopted and subsequently agreed. Some 30 African heads of state masked their sweat through diplomacy in the typically 27-degrees Celsius heat of Togo to pen a constitutive act offering the continent a new progressive identity. With a fre

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