Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin has for the first time acknowledged he is “proud” of founding Wagner Group, a private military company, in 2014, staffed by veterans of the country’s armed forces. After previously denying ownership and suing journalists for reporting it, this was Prigozhin’s first public confirmation that he was the man behind the mercenary […]
French authorities banned a pro-Algerian regime rally in Paris due to the hateful slogans that protesters were planning to chant against Morocco and the restive kabylie population. The protest, called for by MOUDAF, said the rally was on the occasion of the Martyrs’ Day but nothing in the programme was about that specific occasion but […]
Germany is looking to pull its soldiers out of Mali faster, in light of the looming end of MINUSMA, a United Nations peacekeeping mission — one of several UN missions operating in war-torn nations around Africa whose governments want them out, despite warning by experts of consequences and fresh security threats. Germany had deployed some […]
