Russia Pours Troops Into Africa’s War-Ravaged Sahel, Putting US on Alert

Published on April 22, 2024

JOHANNESBURG—Military instructors from Russia’s Africa Corps, successors to the Wagner Group, have arrived in the West African nation of Niger, with a complete air defense system and other weaponry, security analysts told The Epoch Times. They’re the latest troops to enter one of Africa’s most dangerous battlegrounds, the Sahel desert region, where jihadists are fighting government forces from several West African countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Senior army officers have staged coups in these countries, expelling French forces who had been battling several terrorist organizations, most notably al-Qaeda and “Islamic State” (ISIS). “The West should be very worried about what’s happening in the Sahel,” said Dean Wingrin, military analyst at Johannesburg-based DefenceWeb, a portal that analyzes security and defense-related developments in Africa....

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