It follows his charge made to Russia's President Vladimir Putin at an international trade fair in St Petersburg in June that President Hakainde Hichilema in neighbouring Zambia was conspiring with ‘western powers' to overthrow the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government (Dispatches 11/6/24 Praising Moscow Mnangagwa accuses US of backing Zambia's military)...

President Vladimir Putin meanwhile is planning an Africa tour over the coming weeks that would take in Mali Burkina Faso and Port Sudan we hear...

This would feed the narrative of Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia – which is receiving an increasingly receptive ear around the world as Israel's US-armed assault on Gaza continues – that the professed US commitment to international anti-corruption is just a cover for the advancement of its own interests to be abandoned whenever these interests appear threatened...

Kaka's opponents say that when he went to Russia in January it was to strike a deal with President Vladimir Putin and to join the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) the new alliance of the miliary regimes in Burkina Faso Mali and Niger and that after he wins the presidential election he will ask French troops to leave (AC Vol 65 No 3 Juntas in shock split from Ecowas)...

She also staunchly supports Russia's President Vladimir Putin and is the twin sister of Duduzane Zuma who had been talking about launching his own party...

Algerians complain that Tebboune's poor performance abroad – where even key ally Russia's President Vladimir Putin seems to have a low opinion as well as Algeria's failure to join the BRICS grouping – is doing down the nation...

He has also said on social media that President Vladimir Putin was correct to start the war with Ukraine after the EU sided with 'Nazis' in Kyiv and that President Emmanuel Macron and France were a greater threat to Africa than famine...

It was expected because no one believed President Vladimir Putin would do business as usual with someone who had tried to overthrow him...