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Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR) has claimed it had provided the Tuareg separatist rebels with information that facilitated the devastating attack on Malian government troops and their allied mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group, now called Africa Corps. Mali’s military has acknowledged, in a rare admission of a defeat, that it had suffered a “large number” […]
Dozens of fighters from Russia’s Wagner mercenary group have reportedly arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) ahead of a constitutional referendum due on July 30 that could abolish the term limits and allow the current president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, to seek another term in 2025. A short-lived mutiny in Russia in June, led by the […]
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he finds it “particularly worrying” that “Wagner mercenaries are at the northern border” of Ghana, operating in neighboring Burkina Faso, and are allegedly being paid with proceeds from a Burkinabe mine. “Burkina Faso has now made an arrangement to, like Mali, use Wagner forces,” Akufo-Addo said during a meeting […]