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Alex Vines
Academic
Africa programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Notable Quotes
""This is indicative of Russian anxiety of the direction of travel of Angola under the Lourenço administration.""View Story →
"I hear that al-Qaida-affiliated JNIM, as well as the FLA separatist movement, are involved."View Story →
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