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Fighters loyal to the Lord’s Resistance Army pose with their rifles inside the forest near River Mbou in the Central African Republic

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

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Fighters loyal to the Lord’s Resistance Army pose with their rifles inside the forest near River Mbou in the Central African Republic

guns down

Premium badgeUganda: End of Kony’s LRA as rebels return home? The anticipated short retrieval operation was stretched out due to disagreements over the repatriation of the CAR women married to ex-fighters.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

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Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
© President Vladimir Putin surrounded by African leaders at the first Russia-Africa Summit, in Sochi in 2019. (Reuters/Sergei Chirikov)

diplomatic test

Premium badgeFive questions to understand Putin’s Russia-Africa Summit ambitions Vladimir Putin’s upcoming summit in St. Petersburg on 27 and 28 July will be an opportunity for Moscow to do a continental roll call.

Central African Republic top stories

Fighters loyal to the Lord’s Resistance Army pose with their rifles inside the forest near River Mbou in the Central African Republic

guns down

Premium badgeUganda: End of Kony’s LRA as rebels return home? The anticipated short retrieval operation was stretched out due to disagreements over the repatriation of the CAR women married to ex-fighters.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

What’s next?

Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
© President Vladimir Putin surrounded by African leaders at the first Russia-Africa Summit, in Sochi in 2019. (Reuters/Sergei Chirikov)

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Premium badgeFive questions to understand Putin’s Russia-Africa Summit ambitions Vladimir Putin’s upcoming summit in St. Petersburg on 27 and 28 July will be an opportunity for Moscow to do a continental roll call.

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