Tuareg herders Ousmane Ag Sidi and Abdoulwahab Ag Mahamad were working in and around Zahro, a village on the Niger…
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Instability has been a fixture in Central African Republic since at least 2004, when a three-year civil war engulfed the…
When Maj. Gen. Al-Nour Ahmed “al-Qubba” Adam defected from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April, he brought a…
Russian cargo aircraft were tracked making at least 167 flights to five Algerian air bases between March 2025 and April…
New reporting on Colombian mercenaries in Sudan’s civil war shows how outside forces have prolonged the conflict and eroded regional…
African governments for decades have grappled with the destabilizing effects of private military companies (PMCs), mercenaries and paramilitary groups, which…
Nine months after Russia replaced and rebranded its mercenaries in Mali as Africa Corps, the mercenaries’ involvement in counterterrorism there…
A recent investigation has cast light on the shadowy web of operatives, recruiters, social media influencers and travel agents who…
An ethnic militia that was recruited, trained and armed by Russia’s Wagner Group PMC has turned against the government of…
Before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Polina Alexandrovna Azarnykh ran a Facebook group helping Arab students go to Moscow to…