As World Terrorism Continues to Rise, Moscow Goes Nuclear in Africa

Published on November 29, 2023

JOHANNESBURG—A few weeks ago, with eyes focused on the horrors unfolding in the Middle East, a stroke of a pen in a tiny country in West Africa made the world a more dangerous place.  Simon-Pierre Boussim, Burkina Faso’s energy minister, and Nikolay Spasskiy, deputy director-general of Russian state nuclear company Rosatom, signed a deal to build a nuclear power plant in the landlocked Sahel desert state.  According to research by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia’s national security establishment views civil nuclear power exports as an “important tool for projecting influence overseas while creating revenue streams for sustaining intellectual and technical capabilities and vital programs inside Russia itself,” but such cooperation is often a double-edged sword. ...

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