title: Is there a Crimea scenario in Africa
abstract: Like the rest of the world, Africa witnessed from afar the vote by Crimean residents on 16 March 2014 to rejoin the Russian Federation, from which it departed in 1954 as a gift from Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to neighbouring Ukraine. The international view was that the vote was as illegitimate as Khrushchev's original gesture. Ukraine was a Soviet satellite in 1954 and totally under Moscow's control. It made no practical difference whether Crimea was part of Ukraine or the USSR. Russia con
journal: Africa conflict monthly monitor