Wagner’s Mercenary Model Still Effective In Africa’s Most Fragile Places
October 20th, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on Wagner’s mercenary model which is still effective in Africa’s most fragile places: True friends, says Hassan Bouba, swigging from a mug with Vladimir Putin’s face on it, “are those who are by your side in the most difficult moments. And Russia was with us in the most difficult of […]
Read more »Building An African Multinational
October 1st, 2024
Via The Economist, an interesting report on what a solar startup reveals about business in the continent’s toughest places: When an eritrean solar salesman called Kidane Tesfamichael arrived in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), in 2017 he spoke neither French nor Sango, the official languages. He had no means of transport, in […]
Read more »CAR: A Phantom State In The Heart of Africa
September 24th, 2024
Via The Economist, commentary on the Central African Republic: Whenever I visit a country for the first time, I try to pay a visit to its national museum. It can tell you a lot about the place that set it up. Take the national museum in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), […]
Read more »Rwanda Offers Security and Business Deals in Bilateral Package
February 15th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a report on Rwanda’s bilateral security agreements which offer competitive business advantages, but at what (future) cost? Two buses chauffeuring journalists embedded with the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) exited Afungi airport in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique. The airport, situated inside the main camp of Total Energies, is where the French […]
Read more »The Elusive Figure Running Wagner’s Embattled Empire of Gold and Diamonds
September 24th, 2023
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, an article on Dmitry Sytii the elusive figure working to preserve the Wagner’s multibillion-dollar African operations: T-shirts have appeared on the streets of the Central African Republic’s capital recently picturing a bearded man with flowing hair and an almost saintly look. The image, reminiscent of a revolutionary Che Guevara, […]
Read more »Wagner Group’s Central African Financial Model
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an investigation into how Wagner – from gold to coffee, wood to spirits – has made the Central African Republic and Cameroon the backbone of a network of companies whose profits are worth millions of euros: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries are notably exploiting the Ndassima mine in the Central African Republic, […]
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