Russia accuses West of sabotaging Africa as Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger align with Moscow | Putin | EU

Russia accuses Western powers of waging a “dirty war” to destabilise Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, as Moscow backs their new Sahel alliance and talks up Africa’s “second awakening”. With Lavrov promising security, food and energy cooperation before a Russia–Africa forum in Cairo, is the Kremlin reshaping African geopolitics?