Wagner’s Bloody Legacy in Mali: Torture, Executions, and a Trail of Fear
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Wagner mercenaries are turning West Africa’s gold fields into killing grounds. From Sudan to the Central African Republic (CAR), Russian-backed forces loot, murder, and smuggle gold and other resources to bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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Anyone tut-tutting about “Church teaching on the right of nations to defend their borders” is going to be remembered in the end as morally equivalent to the anti-abolitionist Catholic bishops who obsessed over “Church teaching on slavery” completely apathetic to the reality of slavery
Russian actors have played a leading role in seeding and amplifying false narratives around Burkina Faso’s military junta. The junta, in turn, has been among the most vocal supporters of Moscow’s growing security presence in Africa.
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s departure from the Economic Community of West African States marked a significant pivot away from the West & toward Russia ⬇️
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#VIGINUM publie avec les contributions de partenaires internationaux, un rapport sur African Initiative, une agence de presse russe, pensée comme l'un des principaux vecteurs de la réarticulation du dispositif d’influence de la Russie en Afrique post-Prigojine ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...
French agency @viginum.bsky.social releases a report, including contributions from the FCDO 🇬🇧 and the EEAS 🇪🇺, on African Initiative, a Russian 'news agency' considered to be one of the main vehicles for the rearticulation of Russia's influence in post-Prigozhin Africa.