Tag Archives: Wagner

Five Ghanaians are in police grips, since August this year, and have since made an appearance in court where they were charged with “planning to overthrow the government and destabilizing the peace.” The arrest took place on August 14, 2023, and was related to a protest organized by a pro-Russian …

President Vladimir Putin of Russia will not attend the funeral for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary chief who launched a failed mutiny against Russia’s military leadership and and died in a plane crash last week, the Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday, according to Russian state media. The spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, …

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, is reported to have been killed in a plane crash that occurred in Russia. The leader has been identified as one of the passengers on the list of people who were on the plane that tragically crashed in Russia’s Tver region on …

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has appeared in his first video address since his failed mutiny in Russia, which suggests he is in Africa. The BBC has not been able to verify where the video was filmed. The video posted on Telegram channels linked to the Wagner mercenary group shows Prigozhin …

A revolt by the Wagner force in Russia poses a diplomatic quandary for Mali and Central African Republic (CAR), where forces from the mercenary group have played an increasingly central role in long-running internal conflicts. As the Wagner fighters barrelled towards Moscow on Saturday after seizing a southern city overnight, …

Russia’s Wagner mercenary force has attempted to hide efforts to obtain military equipment internationally for use in the war in Ukraine and is seeking to transit such supplies through Mali, the United States State Department said. The private mercenary force, which is fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, is willing …

The Russian government was mentioned in Washington DC last week by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo when he alleged that Wagner group, a mercenary organization linked to the government is operating in next door Burkina Faso. President Akufo-Addo who was in the US for the US-African Leaders’ summit in a …

The Government of Burkina Faso has reportedly recalled its ambassador to Ghana over President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s accusations that the country is hiring Russian mercenaries. According to security analyst Adib Saani, who disclosed this to GhanaWeb, the Burkinabe government has also summoned Ghana’s ambassador to Burkina Faso to answer questions …