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Russia's Africa Corps marches in to replace Wagner group in the continent's coup belt (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 months ago by Sarsaparilla@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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It may not be on the news radar in the English-speaking world, but the turbulence sweeping parts of Africa is the biggest challenge to French influence on the continent in 60 years.

Civilian governments backed by Paris have been toppled in military coups and Russia has wasted little time in taking advantage. The Wagner group was infamous for doing Russia's bidding across Africa, but now a new organisation loyal to Vladimir Putin is infiltrating the region's coup belt.

ABC News Australia - Norman Hermant reports.

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[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Looks like our next step is clear. We send the CIA in to start fomenting the hate against Russia for oppressing the Africans.

[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't think we'd necessarily need the CIA for that one, seems that the Russians have been doing the work for us.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/russia-wagner-group-central-african-republic-bambari-massacre-rape-mass-murder/

We'll see if the new group is as awful as Wagner was.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bad takes and amp links go hand in hand

[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The only reason to simp for Wagner is to be so brain fucked by the atrocities of the West that any other country's atrocities somehow become "liberatory police actions" in comparison.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-group-accused-of-raping-allied-soldiers-in-the-central-african-republic

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/12/wagner-group-mercenaries-mali-rape-torture-killing-spree/

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/16/africa/darfur-sudan-wagner-conflict-cmd-intl/index.html

Non-amp link, stop simping for rapists and mass murderers.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Nice job putting words in my mouth.

[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

It'll take some doing for Russia to reach the near-zero levels of credibility Europe has with Africans, but a prolonged military presence should help with that.