How Wagner Teamed up with the CAR’s Diamond Mafia
July 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at how the Wagner group has taken control of the Central African diamond sector: A stone’s throw away, the river Kotto flows slowly, waiting to empty into the Oubangui, situated nearly 200km further south on the border with DRC. A little further on, on the ochre laterite road […]
Read more »What Wagner’s Mutiny Means for Its Sprawling African Business Empire
June 30th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an article on how the Russian mercenary group’s commercial network in the Central African Republic is set to come under pressure: The two men, rifles strapped to their backs, huddle together in the grass. Bright flashes appear in their hands — Molotov cocktails, which they hurl high over a barbed wire fence […]
Read more »Russian Forces Help Secure Central Africa Gold Zone in New Pact
February 3rd, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report on a new Central Africa gold “zone” comprised of Sudan, Chad and CAR: Three nations have agreed with the help of Russian troops to secure a gold-rich region in the Central African Republic rife with armed rebel groups, the latest sign of Moscow’s expanding influence on the continent. A deal struck […]
Read more »Russia and Central African Republic
December 24th, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how – as Moscow wages war in Ukraine – its mercenaries have already established control in the Central African Republic — with scant Western reaction: In early March, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its third week, a Russian diplomat nearly 3,000 miles away in the […]
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