A 21-year-old Russian answers an " #AfricaCorps " IT job ad, 2M ruble bonus, #Africa posting. Reality : military training, no IT role, corruption, many sent to #Ukraine. Told he’d deploy as a sapper in #Kupyansk, he fled to the Philippines and went public.
www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukr...
#Moscow is going beyond regime security in #EquatorialGuinea, replicating its #CAR model : cultural outreach, armed protection, and long-term entrenchment via #AfricaCorps. Goal : a strategic Gulf of Guinea foothold with maritime reach and recruitment potential.
2/3 #Wagner-linked forces have been folded into #AfricaCorps under #Russia’s Defense Ministry. Influence ops and security projection are now coordinated, backing #Sahel alliances and pro-Moscow regimes, PMCs becoming part of an integrated state system.
#Mali : pourquoi les opérations militaires russes s’essoufflent depuis l’arrivée d’ #AfricaCorps
Rekrytering till ryska #AfricaCorps kan i själva verket utgöra rekrytering till den ukrainska fronten. Visar på de ryska rekryteringssvårigheterna.
www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukr... #StandWithUkraine #ryssland #säkpol #föpol
Rekrytering till ryska #AfricaCorps kan i själva verket utgöra rekrytering till den ukrainska fronten. Visar på de ryska rekryteringssvårigheterna.
www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukr... #StandWithUkraine #ryssland #säkpol #föpol
A JNIM supporter video claims to show the aftermath of a "coordinated attack with the separatists" in Kidal, targeting a convoy of #Malian army and #Russian #AfricaCorps
Evidence of coordination with Tuareg armed groups is rare, and JNIM does not admit such coordination
Mali : quand #Wagner compose la marche funèbre du #Mali
Malgré le remplacement officiel du groupe Wagner https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Wagner par #AfricaCorps https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Corps en 2025, la réalité sur le terrain reste […]
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Cette visite intervient dans un contexte questionnant l'efficacité de la présence de la #Russie, via l' #AfricaCorps, dans le #Sahel, et alors que #DonaldTrump bouscule l'ordre des relations internationales, en créant notamment le #BordOfPeace.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
7/ #AfricaCorps, qui a déployé plusieurs dizaines de mercenaires russes dans le pays, a annoncé avoir participé à la riposte, notamment à la défense des drones #Bayraktar TB2 (turcs également). Certains comptes #Telegram liés à l'entité ont souligné la passivité des #FAN.
If the #ICE group (private military company) is allowed to take on REPRESENTATIVE duties for the USA in Italy (in this case at the #WinterOlympics, SPORT and NOT Military matters), it will create a precedent where the WagnerGroup, renamed #AfricaCorps* could represent Russia
R U OK with that?
*) ⬇️
Se si permetterà al gruppo dell'#ICE (compagnia militare privata) di avere compiti di RAPPRESENTANZA per gli USA in Italia ( ai #GiochiOlimpiciInvernali o altro), si creerà un precedente per cui il #WagnerGroup rinominato #AfricaCorps potrà rappresentare i russi.
Tutto bene?
Bob Denard och statskupperna i Afrika: ett mercenarvs anatomi
Ny artikel av @premat.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social i #TheConversation
🔗https://tinyurl.com/BobDenardSVE
#BobDenard #Afrique #Françafrique #géopolitiqueAfricaine #AfricaCorps #Wagner
l’acheminement de puissants #missiles anti-aériens au Burkina Faso. Après vérifications, ce type de matériel n’a pas été vendu à ce pays et n’est pas utilisé, à ce jour, par l’ #AfricaCorps : l’unité dédiée aux opérations africaines du ministère russe de la Défense.)
www.rfi.fr/fr/monde/202...
🇱🇾 AFRICOM and CIA are tracking Russian personnel and heavy equipment, possibly S-300/S-400, arriving in Haftar-held eastern and central #Libya. The move signals a Syria drawdown, boosts #AfricaCorps reach, and strengthens Moscow’s leverage in the Med and Sahel.
Her family said the 14-year-old had been #raped by Russian #soldiers who burst into their tent in #Mali two weeks earlier. The "white" #Russians (oh, yes. Of course) were members of #AfricaCorps, a new military unit under #RussiaDefenseMinistry that replaced the #WagnerMercenaryGroup = #supremacists
When the #RussianAfricaCorps replaced #WagnerPMC 6 months ago, weary civilians hoped for less brutality. The #UnitedNations says they have been abused by all sides in the conflict.
But refugees described a new reign of #terror by #AfricaCorps in the vast & largely lawless territory, & legal […]
🇲🇱 No surprise : New name and same methods by #AfricaCorps making #Russia directly accountable as terror spreads and communities are devastated across northern #Mali. Dozens of civilians fleeing testify to the @apnews.com.
apnews.com/article/mali...
👇🇷🇺🇲🇱"As Russia’s Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe atrocities from beheadings to rapes"
#Russia #AfricaCorps #MaliAtrocities
¿Cómo asfixia la yihad Bamako a 800 km de Canarias? #28denoviembre #felizviernes #Mali #Bamako #Sahel #Canarias #JNIM #ISSahel #AfricaCorps #Wagner #Migración #Seguridad
donporque.com/yihad-a-800-...
🇲🇱 In #Mali, brutal torture, executions and widespread abuses of #Wagner and #AfricaCorps forcing thousands to flee and leaving survivors traumatised : eyewitnesses for
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three years ago, Mali's military junta expelled French troops, a two-fingered gesture to the old conial power that was applauded by many in the country, In France's place came Russian mercenaries promising protection for the junta and defeat of a dogged Islamist insurgency. Today, as al-Qaida-affiliated Jama a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) encircles the capital Bamako with a crushing fuel blockade, and with talk of yet another coup, it is clear the Russians have brought neither peace nor stability. Almost without the world noticing, the Sahel has become the epicentre of global terrorism. More than half of terrorism-related deaths last year took place in the semi-arid strip south of the Sahara, according to the Global Terrorism Index, with groups affiliated with Isis and al-Qaeda responsible for most. In neighbouring Burkina Faso, which is top of the terrorism list in terms of deaths, something similar is happening even if the regime itself is not yet teetering. There, the government of another leader who came to power in a coup, Ibrahim Traoré - whose nationalist rhetoric has made him a hero to many - controls less than half the country's territory, with JNIM exerting authority over much of the rest. It was Traoré who told his fellow African leaders to "stop behaving like puppets every time the imperialists pull the strings". But Sahelian countries are in danger of swapping one kind of imperialism for another. Russian mercenaries, initially with Wagner and now with its replacement Africa Corps, have been linked with human rights abuses. In Mali, Russians have shown scant appetite for countering the Bamako siege and more for protecting gold mines.
Jihadism and Russia: a toxic mix in the Sahel.
West needs a strategy to counter southern spread of instability into coastal states archive.ph/AZl1q #ISIS #AlQaida #AfricaCorps #Islamism #Jihadism #terrorism
6/ Les mercenaires de la société #Wagner, que la #Russie souhaite remplacer par l' #AfricaCorps, davantage axée sur les intérêts du #Kremlin, ont été déployés en RCA depuis 2017. Ces derniers sont accusés de nombreuses exactions contre les populations civiles.
In June 2025, #Wagner announced its withdrawal from #Mali, replaced by the #AfricaCorps —an entity controlled by the #RussianMinistryofDefence that continues to employ many Wagner personnel.
