President Mokgweetsi Masisi is believed to be among African leaders targeted for ouster from the presidency by Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU) a Soviet military intelligence organization.
A trove of 100 secret United States military and intelligence confidential documents, accessed and published by the Washington Post newspaper outlines a plan by GRU to start a propaganda campaign in several African countries.
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