The Latest Breaking News from Wagner

Poland is deploying thousands of troops to its border with pro-Russian Belarus, calling it a deterrent move as tensions between the neighbors ratchet up

Other African states are saying that it is they who must decide the continent’s fate, not strategists in Moscow and Washington, writes Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Belarus may be funding the activities of the Wagner mercenary group, British defence chiefs claim.

Seven people – including a 23-day-old baby girl – have been killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, according to the country’s Internal Affairs Ministry

Ukraine has been trying to recapture strategically significant village for days as part of counteroffensive

One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced

Russian military targeted residential areas, factories and mobile communications towers, says regional governor

A local activist in Niger with ties to the military regime says the only way to avoid conflict in the country between mutinous soldiers that ousted the president and regional nations who are threatening an invasion to reinstate him, is to recognize the new regime as the ones in power

West African heads of state are planning to meet after Niger’s military junta defied their deadline to reinstate the deposed president who’s said to be running low on food in deteriorating conditions under house arrest

West African leaders expected to meet on Thursday to discuss response to generals who have deposed Niger’s president.

Voters in the Central African Republic overwhelmingly approved a draft constitution paving the way for President Faustin Archange Touadera to seek a third term as president. However NGOs and civil society groups accuse the government of circumventing democracy.