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Congo-Kinshasa

Wagner Group is struggling to sell arms to Tshisekedi

Kinshasa’s closer business ties with the US are sidelining Moscow’s military offers

Congolese businessmen close to President Félix Tshisekedi are trying to negotiate a regime security, and arms deal between Kinshasa and the remnants of the Wagner Group, now under Pavel Prigozhin, son of the group’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin who died in a plane crash on 23 August, 2023.

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