Rarely has there been such a whiff of the Cold War on the banks of the Ubangi River and in the streets of Bangui. In the heart of the Central African Republic’s capital, another front of the war launched two years ago in Ukraine by President Vladimir Putin has opened up, pitting a Russian bloc against a Western one, represented by the EU and the US.
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