This is John Batchelor. Central Africa,

Wronin Wordsworth of the geopolitical futures

comments on a plan out of Moscow

to build a railroad reaching from the Mediterranean basin at Tripoli down into

Niger connecting with Chad, connecting with Mali, connecting with Burkina Faso eventually. with East Africa. This is the Sahel from Mauritania all the way to Sudan in the in the

east. This railroad proposed can be straightforwardly financed by selling bonds or by the Chinese.

Ronan tells me very carefully what's ahead, what is the possibility.

Here's Ronan Wordsworth to identify a dream of Central Africa.

Also mentioning this is part of a report about Russia moving in as the U.S. is asked to leave, as to get out by the Niger government, now a

junta no longer democratically elected.

In fact, all across the Sahel, Huntas are taking over democracies.

Ronan Wordsworth, Geopolitical futures, the future of Central Africa, question mark. So this was a report just came out last week from Russian sources.

Basically, I saw the map there that they're proposing to build a new railway from the coast of Libya, basically near Tripoli, down south

into Indonesia, and then split in Asia where it goes westwards towards Mali, Burkina Faso, and then east and southeast towards

Sudan, Chad and Central African Republic.

It seems like this is a good way of logistically connecting a lot of these Russian-friendly countries

and then giving them access to the open seas to be able to export a lot of the raw materials

that are being extracted from the countries. I think that's become even

more important following the ongoing civil war in Sudan because I think there's reports that before the civil war

there was significant flows especially from Libya, Sudan and Central

African Republic out through the port of Sudan. Obviously that is almost logistically impossible at the moment

while there's a civil war continuing. This gives them a much bigger, a much grander idea and vision of how that region will look and be able to

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