The videos from Mali’s capital in September were starkly at odds with the assurances Russia’s Wagner group mercenaries ... now re-christened Africa Corps, this summer in Mali.

Since Yevgeny Prigozhin’s 2023 betrayal, the Kremlin has been trying to supplant the Wagner group throughout the continent.

saying the group is making Africa "more free". Wagner is believed to have thousands of fighters on the continent, where it has lucrative business interests. Mr Prigozhin's soldiers are embedded in ...

As many as 84 Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group were reported to have died during clashes near Tinzaouaten in Africa ...

The Wagner Group is a private military company (PMC) with operations in Africa that was tied to the late Russian mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin. The PMC have been deployed by various African ...

After the death of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin is putting a new power structure in place that will take over the group’s sprawling operations in Africa, which have advanced ...

The project focuses on how the Wagner Group's business model, backed by Russian state support, is fostering instability and expanding Russian influence in Africa and in the Middle East. The project ...

She said its work in Ukraine and Africa was ... the US said Wagner soldiers had planted landmines around the Libyan capital, Tripoli. And in July, the UK said the group had carried out "executions ...

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Moscow has sought to establish a greater presence in North and West Africa, and the “Russian Expeditionary Corps” is leading those efforts.

Most Wagner businesses in Africa center on natural resources like gold, diamonds and timber. But in 2022 the Russian paramilitary group started a brewery in the Central African Republic as a way ...