![]() That suggests Wagner would be more than willing to help, but isn’t necessarily now. "Thousands of Wagner fighters are capable of bringing order, of destroying terrorists and of not allowing them to harm the local populations of these states," he said in a voice message on Telegram whilst hobnobbing with African leaders in St Petersburg. ![]() Yevgeny Prigozhin’s comments in relation to the coup seem deliberately ambiguous. There is no direct evidence that Wagner had a hand in the Niger situation. ![]() Wagner’s activities across many African nations, especially in Mali, Sudan and the Central African Republic, bear all sorts of similarities with the very worst of colonial excesses - mineral extraction, mass atrocities and security for politically unsavoury regimes at the expense of their populations. Russia’s war in Ukraine is a blatantly imperialist undertaking, however Putin tries to sell it to African leaders who have by and large stayed neutral on the invasion. The reality though is that it is utterly disingenuous. The spectacle of Russian flags waved by coup-supporters at Sunday’s rally in Niamey, Niger, shows just how much Russia’s effort to pitch itself as an anti-colonial flagbearer resonates. Analysis by Diana Magnay, Moscow correspondent
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