But in CAR, where it is led by Prigozhin’s former right-hand man, Dmitri Sytyi, it is still known as Wagner – and its forces are apparently stronger than ever. There is something of late-colonial ...

Tripoli woke up to the sound of war—not from an unknown foreign invader, but from forces that claimed to represent “national ...

The founder of the Wagner Group, a mercenary outfit often utilized ... Lechner, a journalist and international-affairs expert, traveled to Libya, the Central African Republic and beyond to bring ...

Former Russian mercenary and Wagner leader the late Yevgeny Prigozhin. The Wagner Group is a private military company (PMC) with operations in Africa that was tied to the late Russian mercenary ...

Some 1,300 mercenaries of the Russian private contractor Wagner Group have been moved from Libya to Ukraine to fight alongside Russian forces, according to a Libyan security analyst.

Thousands have protested plans of Central African Republic's president to run for a third term with the backing of ...

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“A Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean is a fact and we see regular navy visits to [Libya],” the briefing document stated. Mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a Russian private military ...

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By most accounts, Wagner was formed in May 2014, launched by around 10 or so people. The group’s charter, signed by Prigozhin and a man named Dmitry Utkin, called for a “director” to oversee ...

Before his 2023 death in a suspicious plane crash, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had built a sprawling, ...