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Spotlight | Africa
From Nairobi to Lagos, Moscow wages religious war on Kyiv

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Africa in the Russia-Ukraine war

Despite taking place thousands of kilometres from Africa, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having a substantial impact on the continent's economies and governments. Facing hurdles in the supply of grain, fertiliser and fuel, and starved of Russian investment, especially in mining projects, African countries are trying to adapt to the crisis while Moscow and Western countries are lobbying hard to bring them into line with their respective positions. [...]

In parallel to its military attack on Ukraine, the Kremlin is mixing religion and diplomacy in an offensive against the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Africa. [...]

Published on 01/03/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Andrey Avetisyan
Andrey Novikov
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Georgy Maximov
Hilarion of Volokolamsk
Kirill
Leonid of Klin
Leonid of Yerevan
Liberata Mulamula
Makarios
Maria Pateeva
Moscow Theological Academy
Nazih Al-Najari
Orthodox Church of Ukraine
Rossotrudnichestvo
Stefan
Theodore II
Yevgeny Primakov Jr
Yuri Popov

Kenya
Russian Orthodox Church conducts charm offensive in Nairobi

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria is striving to maintain its influence in Kenya in the face of the pro-Kremlin Russian Orthodox Church's growing prominence.

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From left to right: Archbishop Makarios, MP Esther Muthonis Passaris and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in Nairobi on 27 July 2024.

Angola
Soft-power Russian House to open in Luanda in 2025

In the pipeline since August 2023 and properly on the way since the signing of a government agreement in 2024, the Russian Cultural Centre in Luanda will finally open in 2025.

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Kenya
Russia leveraging universities, sport and religion with Kenya's elite

Despite the close ties between Nairobi and Western powers, Moscow is strengthening its cultural presence in Kenya, using limited resources to capture the attention of some notable people.

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Sergei Lavrov and Moses Wetangula, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya, in Nairobi on 29 May, 2023.

Burundi
Russian Orthodox Church extends its reach to Bujumbura

Leonid of Klin, who runs African affairs for the Russian Orthodox Church, has announced to the faithful the Church's presence in a new African country.

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Spotlight | Ethiopia
Moscow ups its game in bell tower battle in the Horn

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has shown itself very open to the advances of the Patriarch of Moscow, who is on a crusade against the Church of Alexandria for recognising the Orthodox Church of Ukraine's independence from Russia in 2019.

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The Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril.

Spotlight | Tanzania
Suluhu opens up Tanzania through investment diplomacy and military alliances

From Washington to Beijing via London, Brussels and Moscow, Samia Suluhu Hassan has revived the links with the capitals that were ignored by her predecessor John Magufuli - and this Tanzanian president has no problem exploiting the differences between her new allies.

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President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan and Charles Michel, president of the European Council, in Brussels on 15 February.

Spotlight | Ethiopia
Tigrayan Orthodox Church split has deep political roots

News of the scission of the Tigrayan Orthodox Church from its Ethiopian headquarters, widely reported in pro-TPLF media, has taken the religious community by storm. But the new entity still has a long way to go to achieve official recognition within the Orthodox world.

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In Focus | Africa, Russia
Patriarch Kirill, the pugnacious emissary of Russian diplomacy in Africa

The Putin-friendly patriarch of Moscow severed ties with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine when Russia invaded Ukraine's Donbass region and the impact of this break-up is now rippling across Africa, where the head of the Russian Orthodox Church is trying, again in step with Moscow, to outstrip the Patriarch of Alexandria.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia.

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Andrey Avetisyan
Andrey Novikov
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Kenya Russian Orthodox Church conducts charm offensive in Nairobi

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Kenya Russia leveraging universities, sport and religion with Kenya's elite

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Senegal
Guns, gold and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | Africa
From Nairobi to Lagos, Moscow wages religious war on Kyiv

Kenya
Russian Orthodox Church conducts charm offensive in Nairobi

Angola
Soft-power Russian House to open in Luanda in 2025

Kenya
Russia leveraging universities, sport and religion with Kenya's elite

Burundi
Russian Orthodox Church extends its reach to Bujumbura

Spotlight | Ethiopia
Moscow ups its game in bell tower battle in the Horn

Spotlight | Tanzania
Suluhu opens up Tanzania through investment diplomacy and military alliances

Spotlight | Ethiopia
Tigrayan Orthodox Church split has deep political roots

In Focus | Africa, Russia
Patriarch Kirill, the pugnacious emissary of Russian diplomacy in Africa