Dan Ford, Zakariya Rahimi: Is Russia’s African Presence Winding Down?
On July 28, 2024, dozens of Wagner fighters were killed in an ambush by Tuareg rebels on the outskirts of the northern Mali town of Tinzaouaten, located along the border…
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Julius Strauss: Murderers and Torturers — Why Are Russian Troops So Bestial?
It makes for haunting viewing. A Russian soldier, almost certainly a 32-year-old father-of-two-daughters called Oleg Yakovlev from the city of Saratov, shouts “Film me! Film me!” as a Ukrainian captive,…
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Who is benefiting geopolitically from African coups?
A troubling pattern has taken hold across Africa. Since 2020, nine successful military coups have fundamentally altered the political landscape of the continent, concentrated primarily but no longer exclusively in…