Wagner’s remnants run an opioid empire in the Central African Republic, WSJ reveals
Up to 500 mercenaries under Prigozhin's son control the tramadol trade in a fief beyond the reach of law enforcement — or Moscow.
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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.
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.
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…
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…