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Blood Gold: How Kremlin mercenaries loot Africa to wage war in Ukraine

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Analysis

Blood Gold: How Kremlin mercenaries loot Africa to wage war in Ukraine

Seizing African gold mines and building smuggling networks, the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group has generated over $2.5 billion to fund Russia's war in Ukraine. But there is a way to close the tap on Wagner's Africa blood gold pipelines.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

How Wagner Group exports Putin-style rule to Africa

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Analysis

How Wagner Group exports Putin-style rule to Africa

Russia's Wagner Group follows a systematic four-part playbook to gain authoritarian control in African nations. In CAR, Sudan, and Mali, the Kremlin-backed mercenaries secure resource access for Russia in exchange for propping up Putin-like regimes.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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Latest news Ukraine

ISW: Russia expands its military presence and influence in Africa

Formal basing agreements and sanctioned operations suggest these efforts would likely last for years, ISW reported.

byMaria Tril

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine sets up embassy in Ghana for the first time

Opening embassies in Africa is part of Ukraine's strategy to implement President Zelenskyy's initiative to hold a global peace summit aimed at resolving the war with Russia. Ukraine plans to open ten new embassies in Africa.

byMaria Tril

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Latest news Ukraine

African Union calls on Russia to restart Ukrainian grain deal – media

The 55-nation African Union called on Russia to reinstate a United Nations-brokered deal allowing Ukraine to export grain…

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian grain handout to Africa can’t replace Ukraine’s disrupted exports – UN chief

Russia offered to donate 25-50k tons of grain to 6 countries after pulling out of deal that allowed export of 30mn tons; this cannot offset rising prices, says UN chief

byAlya Shandra

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s war in Ukraine will worsen Africa’s food security next two years – British Intel

Russia has conducted a conference for African leaders ten days after withdrawing from a deal that enabled export of 30 mn tons of grain to Africa

byAlya Shandra

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Latest news Ukraine

“Ukraine, world don’t need frozen conflicts” – Zelenskyy on African “peace plan”

President Zelenskyy has rejected South African President Ramaphosa’s call for negotiating with Russia to stop Russia’s war against…

byAlya Shandra

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International

South Africa leader calls to negotiate with Russia in 10-step “peace plan,” says Putin welcome at BRICS summit

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the…

byAlya Shandra

3 minute read

International

African leaders come under missile attack in Kyiv en route on “peace mission” to Russia

South African Republic Cyril Ramaphosa and other African leaders have come under a Russian ballistic missile attack on…

byAlya Shandra

Latest news Ukraine

Egypt nearly supplied rockets to Russia, agreed to arm Ukraine instead, leak shows – WP

Egypt paused a plan to secretly supply rockets to Russia last month following talks with senior US officials…

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Wagner owner Prigozhin eyes Africa after setbacks in Ukraine – Bloomberg

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, is reportedly preparing to scale back his private…

byAlya Shandra

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International

Moscow Patriarchate says it has churches in 19 African countries, angering Orthodox world but giving FSB expanded possibilities

At the end of 2019, the Patriarch of Alexandria, whose canonical territory encompasses all of Africa, recognized the…

byPaul A. Goble

Latest news Ukraine

Russian university accused of pressure on African students to join the war – The Daily Beast

Russian officials at the Southern Federal University (SFedU) in the city of Rostov-on-Don, near the border with Ukraine,…

byYuri Zoria

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International

Ukraine launches initiative to feed African countries on Holodomor commemoration day

Ukraine has raised $150 mn at the inaugural summit of the Grain from Ukraine initiative, aimed at overcoming…

byAlya Shandra

The Moscow Patriarchate's church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Johannesburg, South Africa (Photo: trtrussian.com)

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Moscow Patriarchate moved into Africa to provide cover for FSB officers and PMCs, not to punish anyone over Ukraine, Horyevoy says

The Moscow Patriarchate has insisted and most people have accepted the idea that Kirill has expanded the presence…

byPaul A. Goble

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Why Facebook is more revealing on nudity than on Russian disinformation

Even though Facebook and the Russian government have their Brussels offices next door to each other, they appear…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

An armed personnel carrier full of mercenaries from Russia in the Donbas, Ukraine (Image: inforesist.org)

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Kremlin rapidly losing control of ‘private military company’ story

Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian private military companies proliferate ‘to make money on war’

Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian troops in Aleppo, Syria (Image: Wikimedia)

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Russia’s private military companies a more toxic form of Latin American death squads, Pastukhov says

Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not…

byPaul A. Goble