The UK government's sanctions targeting Wagner have been 'underwhelming in the extreme', a new report has found. DiMagnaySky has more. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Wagner has spread its tentacles incredibly fast across the African continent, providing an array of services from counter-insurgency operations to security assistance, military training and political influence campaigns in exchange mostly for hugely lucrative mineral concessions which in turn bolster Russia's heavily sanctioned state coffers.
African countries meanwhile continue to rely heavily on the Wagner model to prop up weak and unstable regimes.The Central African Republic has just announced that Wagner will be providing security around this Sunday's referendum which seeks constitutional changes to enable President Touadera to run for a third term .and a warning of what may happen elsewhere given the country's continued and bloody instability.
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