Africa Corps

Yeah.

Africa Corps, which is a successor for the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary army, killed 10 civilians in Mali a couple weeks ago and tried to frame France for it in a video that went viral.

There's like a fucking proxy war going on in the Mali civil war between France, Ukraine, Russia, whatever.

That's part of it.

Right.

Or we may see a false flag operation, which is, you know, like they did with the two Russian mercenaries that were recently convicted, that they then tried to pin towards, you know, being the former the Africa Corps connection or Wagner connection, that the Russians were interfering and this had to do with Russia.

UNITA, and it had to do with, you know, initially it was the comical statement of the state media that it was 60 tons of explosives, which is completely unrealistic.

And so it was a farcical attempted coup that they came up with.

I was there from right after Christmas 2024 all the way until April of 2025.

Were they calling themselves Wagner then or Africa Corps? They were Wagner at that point.

They were Wagner.

In all five places I was in, I was in Bamingi, in Delhi, Manoval, Kumballa, and Bangui.

It says, in Africa, Russia's offering is not economic miracles, but political survivability and security, just like a mafia boss.

Through vehicles like the Africa Corps, Russia provides a service no other power can match, security in the face of internal rebellion and Western instigated instability.

It trades in the currency of sovereignty, making it the paramount power across the Sahel and into the coastal states.

And it's got Africa remapped.

This signals a degree of pragmatic diplomatic re-engagement.

However, it's vital to note that these military-led states remain heavily reliant on alternative security partnerships, notably Russian and Africa Corps support, following the systematic withdrawal of Western military forces from the region.

And the terrorist networks operating in the vacuum left behind are highly entrenched.

I mean, in Mali, the al-Qaeda-aligned coalition known as JNIM remains the dominant threat, particularly in the central and northern regions.

Among the incidents documented, a strike on a cattle market during the day, a pre-dawn attack on a health centre and the shooting and the killing of five young girls mistaken for attackers.

Mali's military rulers have leaned heavily on Russian paramilitary group Afrika Korps, formerly known as the Wagner Group, particularly since April's attack that killed the defence minister and hit the main airport in Bamago.

Neither Mali nor Russia have commented on the report.

Mali has previously denied killing civilians in counter-insurgency operations.

Also, there have been at least two Russian Shadow Fleet vessels that were destroyed, uh, rendered inoperable in the Mediterranean, but more s- more specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Uh, the, the Wagner Group's Africa Corps, poor choice of blan- branding there, as you know, operates in Francophone Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, where what they do is basically enforce the slave labor that is used by a variety of military juntas to extract, uh, natural resources from these countries, rare earth metals, gold, et cetera.

Uh, that is what they do.

They prop up those juntas.

Ukrainian forces have, have been able to insert into those countries, and using the sort of, uh, strategy that the enemy of my enemy is, is a friend, they have been able to, uh, dock with some nationalist groups, some religiously oriented groups.

But they have been able to train and help these groups operate against, uh, Russian Africa Corps, uh, elements.

So what we're talking about is, you know, when you're operating in that environment, movement is difficult.

So you're almost...