The Wagner Group’s units in Africa will not withdraw anytime soon, despite the recent aborted uprising against the Kremlin by their leader, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, and President Vladimir Putin’s call for them to be absorbed into the Russian army.
That’s the view of most security analysts and members of intelligence agencies contacted by The Epoch Times.
The Washington DC-based think-tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, estimates there are at least 5,000 Wagner mercenaries on the continent in countries including Central African Republic (CAR), Libya, and Mali.
Unofficially, said Jasmine Opperman, a private security consultant specializing in extremism and political violence in Africa, the Wagner Group has a presence across all of Africa….