The United States plans to identify the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company active on the African continent, as a significant transnational criminal organization. The U.S. Treasury also plans to impose additional sanctions against Wagner this week, according to John Kirby, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications….
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
The Ukrainian government says Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army, plans to send fighters from his divided North African nation to support the Russian side in its invasion of Ukraine. “The transfer of military mercenaries is likely to be carried out at the expense of a private military…
It’s been a year since Russian journalists Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal were killed in the Central African Republic (CAR) while working on an investigative project for Russian exile and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The three seasoned journalists were launching a probe into the activities of alleged Russian…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
News agency CNN is reporting that Russian advisers in Sudan, linked to the oligarch and close Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, worked to assist former President Omar al-Bashir in trying to crush the uprising that ultimately led to his removal earlier this month. Their strategies, from pushing out fake news on…
Authorities in Russia insist the deaths of three investigative journalists in the Central African Republic happened because the Investigation Management Center they were working for failed to provide them with adequate security – a claim that counters a newly released report that ties Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and the private…