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 ...

The Russian mercenary Wagner Group has long turned into a widely influential network that also pursues economic activities, ...

Kony brainwashed his young soldiers ... source for information about Wagner's activities in Africa, has not discussed the ...

At that time, in Africa, the Wagner Group already had a foothold in Libya ... "Some officers or colleagues regularly took the liberty of saying to soldiers, ministers or even African presidents ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Yevgeny Prigozhin’s 2023 betrayal, the Kremlin has been trying to supplant the Wagner group throughout the continent. In Mali, the Africa Corps – meant to take its place – is struggling to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

The Central African Republic president is asking voters to support abolishing term limits in a referendum backed by Russia's Wagner mercenary group ... at a Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg.