By Dotun Olayemi For nearly a decade, a shadowy Russian army known as the Wagner Group carved a bloody path across Africa, fighting rebels, protecting dictators, and digging up gold. But when the group’s flamboyant leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a mysterious plane crash in 2023, the future of Russia’s African empire seemed uncertain. It was not. In fact, it simply got smarter, quieter, and much harder to catch. An international consortium of…
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