French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot stated that russia has suffered a defeat on the African continent.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Following the \u201cAfrica Forward\u201d summit held in Nairobi, the minister said in comments to journalists that trade and investment between France and Africa significantly exceed moscow\u2019s share on the continent.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The situation indicates that moscow\u2019s economic model, based solely on the primitive exploitation of natural resources in the Sahel in exchange for services provided by mercenaries of the so-called \u201cAfrica Corps,\u201d is not effective.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f All large-scale kremlin financial injections into African projects and regular \u201cforgiveness\u201d of multi-billion-dollar debts will not bring moscow any strategic results.<\/p>\n
russia is focused on buying the loyalty of local elites. However, these steps are only temporary and are doomed to fail in the long term. They do not create a real economic foundation for the continent\u2019s development; therefore, russia\u2019s position in Africa will become increasingly vulnerable over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot stated that russia has suffered a defeat on the African continent. \u25ab\ufe0f Following the \u201cAfrica Forward\u201d summit held in Nairobi, the minister said in comments to journalists that trade and investment between France and Africa significantly exceed moscow\u2019s share on the continent. \u25ab\ufe0f The situation indicates that moscow\u2019s economic model,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":933,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}