UK deals blow to Russia's disinformation push in Africa

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The United Kingdom’s recent sanctions against Russian individuals running affairs in Europe and African countries that it considers spies has turned out to be a blow to Vladimir Putin’s information manipulation strategy on the African continent.

The mid-July sanctions by the UK against ‘spies running a campaign to destabilize Europe’ spread to an online news agency African Initiative, which The Standard reported in July as a platform that Western Europe considers a tool for disinformation pushed by Moscow and now taking root in Africa.