The outcasts of the Wagner Group threaten Africa – Africa

A direct conflict between the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will have implications in Africa. The Wagner Group (whose mercenaries are now said to be integrated into the Russian army) was a diplomatic extension of the Kremlin in countries like Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic and had a presence in northern Mozambique to protect investments in nature. Gas by TotalEnergies.

In May this year, in the comments of L Deutsche WelleJulian Radimir, an analyst with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, has categorized the Wagner Group as a military tool of the Kremlin for Russia’s growing economic and military influence in Africa.

According to analysts, in addition to military influence, Russia has also used the Wagner Group to gain access to raw materials, such as gold and uranium.

And the American intelligence services went even further in the strategic importance of this group of mercenaries for Russia, arguing that one of its goals was to create a “confederation” of countries hostile to the West in Africa.

With Yevgeny Prigozhin exiled in Belarus, the Wagner Group’s mercenaries deployed to Africa lose their references and threaten to become a kind of outcast, and may begin to act on their own, making them unpredictable and unreliable to those who hired them.