Wagner group rebranded as Russia’s Africa Corps. It is set to expand across the Sahel states, the CAR, and Libya.
Eritrea’s Mao-reading president used to seem like a relic. Now Issaias Afwerki is on a roll. Eritrea is emerging as the unlikely powerbroker in the Horn of Africa. More prominent leaders are courting him. In…
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in…
Patriot, traitor, martyr … legacy of Prigozhin is still unwritten. In a 2018 documentary, Vladimir Putin answers instantly when asked if there is anything he cannot forgive. “Betrayal,” he says with no hesitation. Wagner mercenary…
The purported demise of Prigozhin has garnered significant media attention. Yet it’s good to realize there has been only hearsay and no actual footage that proved the man was alive after his car drove of…
High-stakes arm-wrestling over the future of Niger and the cloud of the Economic Community of West African States. The region is divided, but the African Union stands with ECOWAS on the coup d’ etat in…
Although we have seen no indication that Yevgeniy Prigozhin is still alive (we very much doubt it and think we’ll never find his remains), this is an interesting read about the possible future of the…
The official Russian news agency, TASS, reported on the Wagner group’s activities in Africa. Units of the controversial private military company rescued 12 Chinese miners from militants.
In an analysis of the Wagner group in Africa, Graham Harrison argues that Western coverage on the group’s activities on the continent characterises it as an extension of the Kremlin’s violent and venal cronyism and…
Wagner’s mutiny in Russia has been eyed with interest and concern in Africa as questions mount over its operations. 1 Jul 2023, by Al Jazeera, Ope Adetayo Many observers in Western and Central Africa watched with…
June 27, 2023, Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State The United States is imposing sanctions on several entities in the Central African Republic (CAR) today for their connection to the transnational criminal organization known as…
The war in Ukraine has not stopped Russia’s activities in Africa. Over the past year, the Wagner Group, in particular, has taken advantage of France’s and other Western countries’ worsening relations with Sahelian states. By…
