Yevgeny Prigozhin led the Wagner Group and led extensive security operations in Africa - RAZGRUZKA VAGNERA TELEGRAM CHANNEL
The Telegraph: The Kremlin has formed its own mercenary group to operate in Africa, it has been reported.
Bloomberg said Vladimir Putin’s government was looking to take advantage of the demise of the Wagner group, which operated extensively in several countries on the continent.
The new group is called the Africa Corps and shares its name with the Nazi forces which fought in North Africa in the Second World War.
The Bloomberg report said 20,000 men are expected to be recruited for operations primarily in the Sahel region on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
The Wagner Group, led by the late Yevheny Prighozin, had extensive security operations on the continent and would often receive stakes in mines and other natural resource contracts as payment.
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