Iran’s mischief in Africa through arming separatist and radical groups across the continent poses a risk to regional stability, German media Der Tahesspiegel wrote. In an article on Iran’s strategic opportunism in Africa, Stephan Andreas Casdorff highlighted that Iran had supplied the Polisario separatists with surface to air missiles. “Iran mandated Lebanon’s Hezbollah to train Polisario fighters in the Algeria-based camps,” the German paper recalled. It pointed out that Iran is particularly interested in the Central African Republic, Cameroun, Ghana, Niger and the DRC. Morocco has severed ties with Iran which it accused – together with its Hezbollah proxies- of arming and training the Polisario in April 2018.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 07, 2021 12:56 UTC