This comes after the third phone conversation between the two leaders in less than two months.
President Vladimir Putin’s frequent contact underlines Russia’s interest in building its influence in the region.
The frequency of Putin’s contacts with Mali’s interim president Assimi Goita underlines Moscow’s strong interest in building its influence in the coup-prone Sahel region of West Africa where it is cultivating strong security ties at the expense of France and the US. Goita, a special forces commander, was one of several colonels who led a military coup in 2020. He then seized the interim presidency the following year.
Western governments and NGOs have accused Wagner of committing grave human rights abuses there and elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East.
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