Business and Technology Reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Nation Media Group
Moscow is now sub-Saharan Africa’s leading supplier of firearms, beating China in exports to the region over the last five years, an indication of its growing influence on the continent.
Data by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a global arms trade tracker, shows that Russia supplied 26 percent of the artillery imported by sub-Saharan African countries in the five years to 2022, up from 21 percent in 2017.
