Russia Unleashes ‘Cyber Nightmare’ in Effort to Win African Information War

JOHANNESBURG—The scene on the computer screen is a rubble-strewn street in Ouagadougou, the capital of the tiny West African country of Burkina Faso. Troops amass on one side, holding automatic rifles and rocket launchers, their uniforms emblazoned with the Burkinabe national flag—two equal horizontal bands of red and green, with a yellow five-pointed star in the center. Behind them, there’s another group of soldiers wearing different military fatigues, with their faces covered with black balaclavas and an insignia clear on their chests: two swords on a black background bisecting a gold star—the symbol of the Afrika Korps (Africa Corps), its members being former mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group....