I had come to Bangui, the capital of CAR, in search of the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary army whose founder, Yevgeny ...

Wagner Group was little more than a rumour—a small, silent band of Russian mercenaries moving through the shadows of the ...

Prigozhin’s mercenaries began deploying in force to ... s parliament stated outright that the brewery was owned by the Wagner Group. “Wagner opened its own brewery in Bangui at the end of ...

Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, covering major issues and developments around the world.

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The country is one of the first in which the Wagner mercnaries established operations with the pledge of fighting rebel groups and restoring peace.

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Thousands took to the streets Friday in the Central African Republic to protest President Faustin Archange Touadera's plans to run for a third term with ...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the then-leader of Wagner, died in a mysterious plane crash in Russia on Aug. 23, 2023. The crash came two months after Prigozhin led Wagner troops in a short-lived rebellion ...

Thousands took to the streets Friday in the Central African Republic to protest President Faustin Archange Touadera’s plans to run for a third term with the backing of Russian-led mercenaries ...

Central African Republic opposition parties demonstrate in the streets of Bangui Friday, April 4, 2025, to protest the government and its use of Wagner mercenaries. (AP Photo/ Jean Fernand Koena ...