Wagner's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin set up a mining company Merowe Gold Mining Co and started joint ventures with Hemeti's family as well as companies owned by the SAF...

Maslov who cut his teeth in the Donbass region of Ukraine in 2014 and has been blamed for the 2018 assassination of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic was reportedly charged by Yevgeny Prigozhin to set up the Mali operation...

Lavrov's Southern African sojourn coincided with the expulsion of French troops from Burkina Faso amid reports that fighters from Wagner Group the mercenary outfit owned by Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin were operating alongside the national army...

The group invited television presenters on African networks including four from Afrique Media previously linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner...

It resents the western view that its role in the region is nothing more than the Wagner Group run by Yevgeny Prigozhin a Vladimir Putin confidant...

Deutsche Welle reported on 4 October that Wagner's head Yevgenyi Prigozhin had offered to work with Traoré...

The idea was partly fuelled by international reports that Russia has been smuggling gold from Sudan to built up a vast reserve of bullion with the help of operatives from the mining and mercenary empire of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group...

Its position is complicated by the growing role of the Wagner Group whose chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is known to be close to Russia's President Vladimir Putin...

The close relations between Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia's President Vladimir Putin have raised the geopolitical stakes of the group's operations in Africa and its ties to military regimes in the region...