Last month, with considerable fanfare, the Kremlin convened the second installment of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum. The event, held in Saint Petersburg, was supposed to serve as a showcase of Moscow’s long reach and extensive influence on the African continent. What it highlighted instead, however, were the limits of the Kremlin’s influence – and the importance that Russia’s increasingly isolated government attaches to its foreign policy footprint there.
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