MINISTER of international relations and cooperation Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and executive director Penda Naanda say they are not aware of a Namibian national dying in the plane crash that claimed the life of Russian oligarch and Wagner Group private military company leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. This comes after a local radio station reported that a Namibian named...
Lande wat Wagner huisves sal deur terreur-klassifikasie geraak word Die Verenigde Koninkryk se regering gaan die Russiese huursoldaatgroep, Wagner, as terroriste-organisasie verklaar. Dit bring mee dis onwettig om in dié land ‘n lid van die groep te wees of dit te ondersteun. Maar, soos Britse generaal Richard Barrons verduidelik, die grootste impak sal op regerings...
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport confirmed on Wednesday that Wagner Group private military company’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in the Tver Region near Moscow. According to the name list released by the agency on its Telegram account, Prigozhin was among the ten people who lost...
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said. Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow. The jet, which was flying from the capital...
The African Union has warned against any interference in Niger by those outside of Africa, including private military companies. This follows a video by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who claimed to be in Africa. The BBC reports that the AU’s statement saying it was suspending Niger as a member was dated 14 August but was only released...
Gilbert M. Khadiagala, University of the Witwatersrand Two critical issues must be top of mind for African leaders when they meet President Vladimir Putin at the second Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg this week. First, they should be concerned that they don’t have a common position on the Russian-Ukraine war. The second issue of concern...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time while he works out how to deal with Yevgeny Prighozin, says the director of the CIA. Mr Prigozhin is the head of the Wagner mercenary group who led a mutiny in Russia a month ago. That mutiny exposed significant weaknesses in the system of power Putin...
A Kremlin spokesperson has acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the chief of the “Wagner” mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin in Moscow, days after the paramilitary group’s June revolt. The post Putin met with Wagner following unrest first appeared on Future Media. Source link
NATO says it is closely following the movement of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force as well as their boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, following revelations that neither the private army’s fighters nor their leader had taken up exile in Belarus. When asked by Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor James Bays to comment on reports that Prigozhin had returned to the Russian...