Mali has arrested dozens of soldiers suspected of plotting to overthrow the junta, which itself took power in the west ...

Mali’s ruling junta has detained dozens of soldiers, including prominent military commander General Abass Dembele, over an ...

While Russia’s army is bogged down in Ukraine, its mercenaries are faring no better in Africa. In late July 2024, mercenaries from the the Wagner Group, a Moscow-aligned private military company ...

This month, the Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group announced its total withdrawal from Mali, claiming it had completed its mission after three and a half years of operations in the West African ...

Mali's northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it had lost two ...

Russian-backed Wagner mercenary group has been a key actor in the West African country of Mali for more than two years. The group usually says very little about its controversial operations there.

The Mali defeat raises doubts over whether Moscow, which has admitted funding Wagner and has absorbed many of its fighters into a defense ministry force, will do better than Western and U.N ...

Residents of the Sahel region that includes Mali say Russia’s presence doesn’t appear to have changed since Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a suspicious plane crash last year.

MOSCOW, Aug 4 (Reuters) - In the shadow of the Kremlin, more than 70 Russians paid homage on Sunday to Wagner fighters killed in a major battle with Mali rebels and Islamist fighters, one of the ...

The Wagner Group has reportedly been present in Mali since the military took power in 2021 and is also linked to other West African countries such as Burkina Faso and Niger, where it is said to ...

In a statement over the weekend, al-Qaida asserted that 50 Wagner fighters were killed in its attack meant to “avenge the massacres committed in the center and north” of Mali in the yearslong ...