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 ...

A new report from the Timbuktu Institute sheds light on Russia’s latest move in the Sahel. The transition from the shadowy ...

Officials in the Central African Republic have said that Russia has called on the country to replace the private Wagner ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country.

The US Treasury has sanctioned the head of the Wagner private military group in Mali, Ivan Maslov, as part of its pushback against Wagner activities in Africa funneling support to Russia’s war ...

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.

Once the UN peacekeepers have departed, Mali will be even more dependent on the Russian mercenary Wagner group, which is thought to have 1,000 fighters in the country, for security back-up.

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 ...