This is John Bachelor speaking with Ronan Wordsworth of Geopolitical Futures about Russia in Africa,

moving very carefully with a new entity called the Africa Corps.

The country mentioned most prominently right now is the Democratic

Republic of Congo. In addition, however, there are the other Francophone countries

Burkina Faso Mali Niger.

All of this movement is Russia since the exit of Progozen.

The Wagner group, the Wagner Group, renamed the Africa Corps, very effective to providing security

for a number of states that have slipped from government into the hands of the military.

Africa Corps from Moscow.

Here's Ronan to explain.

Yeah, so the Africa Corps is basically the remnants of the Wagner Group.

Now, if we're over back the Wagner group under

ProGosian, you've getting Progosian, had a significant presence across Africa and they're a private military

contractor but that wasn't just the full scope of their remit.

Basically they provided security, they provided military, they did mining operations,

they even did some other manufacturing operations in countries such as Central African

Republic, and then another major part of what they offered, or what they, not what they offered,

what they actually undertook was direct misinformation campaigns.

And these, at our following Progosions' death last year,

these remnants of Wagner group basically got adopted into the

Russian Ministry of Defense under the catch-all title Africa Corps and so these operations now continue but they're now much more

tightly linked to the Russian state the Russian Ministry of Defense rather than being directly

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