The Wagner group was infamous for doing Russia's bidding across Africa but now a new organisation loyal to Vladimir Putin is infiltrating the region's coup belt.
The next step in the Kremlin's Africa strategy appears to be playing out in the continent's so-called "coup belt".
The organisation seems poised to assume most of the operations of the Wagner group, the Russian private military company that deployed mercenaries across Africa. The Telegram post indicated 200 hundred more Russian troops would be deployed. Many analysts believe this is just the beginning of the Africa Corps assuming Wagner's operations, under the control of Russia's Ministry of Defence."I do think that the Africa Corps will probably become the primary actor in the area," Ms Currie said.
"In many ways, it's very easy for any sort of person who is trying to control to point a finger at the French say, 'Why are they still here?'"One portrayed Zombie French soldiers being mowed down by Mali's military junta with help from mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group.Another video first shared on Russian social media depicts France as a giant rat and shows a home owner calling a Wagner mercenary to exterminate it.
It's no surprise, Mr Dizolele said, that military juntas in countries such as Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are moving closer to Moscow. The governments coup leaders deposed were corrupt and did little to raise living standards."It's a wake-up call for Western countries to look also in the mirror, to sit at a drawing table and say, 'What are we doing? Why are we here? Why are we failing?' There is shared responsibility here," he said.
"We may be shifting a balance in these regions where we will start to see more regimes take power and more autocrats appear."
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