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New Name, Same Brutality: Russian Mercenaries Committing Atrocities in Mali
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New Name, Same Brutality: Russian Mercenaries Committing Atrocities in Mali
The Wagner Group, a Russian private military company notorious for its brutality, departed the Sahelian country of Mali six months ago and was replaced by the Africa Corps, a mercenary outfit more closely tied to the Kremlin. Moscow focused its attention on developing the Africa Corps after a failed mutiny by Wagner’s former leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who, along with one of Wagner’s leaders, Dmitri Utkin, died in a plane crash that most analysts…
Following the death of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin is using orphaned Russian fighters to support African dictators and plunder their mineral wealth.
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