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Spotlight | Africa, Russia
Wagner struggles to fill African vacancies

Russian officers from the Wagner group in Central Africa, July 2023. © Reuters

Two of the private military company's units in the Central African Republic are desperately short of fresh personnel. Intelligence Online is privy to recruitment efforts via closed chat groups on Telegram. [...]

Published on 26.03.2024 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes Morgane Fert-Malka

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