The Latest Breaking News from Wagner

A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity. Reporters with the Forbidden Stories consortium – which includes RFI's sister channel France 24 – reveal how the Wagner paramilitary group duplicated methods…

Even as it pursues its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is also expanding its military footprint in Africa

Civic spaces are shrinking under Goita’s rule, democracy activists say, as the military suspends ‘political activity’.

Conflict monitors say Wagner fighters have intensified combat and widened their operation areas since 2023.

Mali’s army says it’s investigating soldiers who were accused by separatist Tuareg rebels of killing at least 24 civilians earlier this week

Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed from a European regietheater enfant terrible to a patriarch

Armen Sarkisyan, founder of a pro-Russian militia group in Ukraine, dies in a bombing in Moscow. He was a wanted criminal figure with ties to former Ukrain...

The NGO Human Rights Watch has condemned "atrocities" committed against civilians by Mali's army, the Russian mercenary group Wagner and Islamist armed groups since UN peacekeepers withdrew a year ago.

Assault on Syria’s second-largest city by Islamist militants may tarnish Russia’s reputation as a global player