Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced ...

Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced ...

Human Rights Watch has called on the military junta and its allied Russia-backed Wagner Group to end the executions of ethnic ...

While Russia’s army is bogged down in Ukraine, its mercenaries are faring no better in Africa. In late July 2024, mercenaries from the the Wagner Group, a Moscow-aligned private military company ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country.

Among the dozens of Wagner mercenaries presumed dead after a lethal battle with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali in July were Russian war veterans who survived tours in Ukraine, Liby… ...

The deaths of Wagner Group troops in Mali during an ambush may be used by the Russian Defense Ministry as leverage to replace the mercenaries' presence in Africa.. That assessment by the ...

Since the death of Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in August 2023, Moscow has tried to take over the group’s operations by establishing the Africa Corps, a Ministry of Defense-controlled ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country. Despite ...