It is speculated that Vladimir Putin might send former prisoners to Africa to prevent their return to Russia. Prof. Amadou ...

Fugitive former businessman Jan Marsalek was allegedly behind a scheme to deploy 15,000 mercenaries to control the vital ...

Russian foreign influence is slowly encroaching on the Sahel’s people, governments, and defensive mechanisms. Though ...

When Africa’s strongmen need help consolidating control and protecting their regimes, they have often turned to the Wagner Group, a mercenary outfit whose operations have helped Russian ...

Africa has long been a continent of vast natural wealth, yet today, it is at the center of an economic power struggle that ...

Fourteen militia groups control two-thirds of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) and parts of the capital city, Bangui.

New details have emerged showing how two daughters of the elusive rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Joseph Kony, ...

A military hospital database obtained exclusively by RFE/RL offers additional evidence of soldiers from more than a dozen ...

President Vladimir Putin hosted Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo for talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the ...

As Ukraine marks the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, Africa has become a strategic issue for both Moscow and Kyiv, ...

UN peacekeeping forces and Russian mercenaries are carrying out human rights violations in the Central African Republic, according to an investigator.