It resents the western view that its role in the region is nothing more than the Wagner Group run by Yevgeny Prigozhin a Vladimir Putin confidant...

Deutsche Welle reported on 4 October that Wagner's head Yevgenyi Prigozhin had offered to work with Traoré...

The idea was partly fuelled by international reports that Russia has been smuggling gold from Sudan to built up a vast reserve of bullion with the help of operatives from the mining and mercenary empire of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group...

Its position is complicated by the growing role of the Wagner Group whose chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is known to be close to Russia's President Vladimir Putin...

The close relations between Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia's President Vladimir Putin have raised the geopolitical stakes of the group's operations in Africa and its ties to military regimes in the region...

Col Goïta's regime exploits local resentment of sanctions to stir up anger against the bloc but has been welcoming the arrival of Russian forces and probably despite denials as many as 1 000 mercenaries from the Wagner Group headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin a close associate of Russia's President Vladimir Putin (AC Vol 63 No 2 War dogs' old tricks)...

Wagner Group Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin a close associate of Russia's President Vladimir Putin tweeted on 24 January that the coup in Burkina Faso represented a 'new era of decolonisation' a direct reference to declining French influence in the region...

Wagner is widely believed to be a proxy for the Russian state and its boss business tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin is close to President Vladimir Putin...