AFRICA RUSSIA
Patriarch Kirill, the pugnacious emissary of Russian diplomacy in Africa
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“Security, Moscow's way into Africa”
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. [...] (1502 words)
Issue dated 29/11/2021
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