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Outcasts from the Wagner group threaten Africa
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s exile in Belarus will have implications for the Wagner Group’s presence on the African continent.
The headon clash between Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have repercussions in Africa. The Wagner Group (whose mercenaries are now said to be integrated into the Russian army) was a diplomatic extension of the Kremlin in countries like Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic, and had a presence in northern Mozambique to encourage conservation investments to protect gas. by Total Energies.
In May of this year, Julian Rademeyer, an analyst at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, in comments to Deutsche Welle, classified the Wagner Group as a Kremlin military tool in Russia’s growing economic and military influence in Africa.
According to analysts, in addition to military influence, Russia also used the Wagner Group to gain access to raw materials such as gold and uranium.
US intelligence went even further in emphasizing the strategic importance of this mercenary group to Russia, arguing that one of their goals was to create a “confederation” of antiWestern states in Africa.
With Yevgeny Prigozhin exiled to Belarus, the Wagner Group mercenaries deployed in Africa lose their credentials and threaten to become something of an outcast, capable of acting independently, making them unpredictable to those who hired them and makes unreliable. .
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