Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin

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...

Following the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin Russia's Ministry of Defence and the GRU military intelligence directorate took on the task of integrating much of Wagner's organisation into their new Africa Corps formation (AC Vol 65 No 18 Vladimir Putin's Kremlin builds on Wagner's propaganda legacy)...

Wagner operatives remain under close surveillance in all jurisdictions since Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed coup in 2023 (AC Vol 64 No 14 Prigozhin tests Putin with an African putsch)...

Wagner in its earlier days under the control of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin maximised the value of its apparently ambiguous relationship with the Russian state...

Formerly contracted to Bangui as the Wagner Group (under the control of Yevgeny Prigozhin until his spectacular fall-out with Russia's President Vladimir Putin) the Russian fighters now come under the command of the defence ministry in Moscow...

Ndong addressed the ‘traditional values' panel at the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi and praised the political influence network of Yevgeny Prigozhin founder of the Wagner mercenary group (AC Vol 64 No 23 Wagner pays cash for digital influence)...

One year after Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's dramatic demise the legacy of his efforts to frame Russia as a liberator of Africa from western neocolonialism lives on (AC Vol 64 No 19 Kremlin ponders its post-Wagner options)...

One year after the death of Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his deputy Dmitry Utkin in a plane crash under suspicious circumstances the mercenary group renamed as the Africa Corps is now more tightly controlled to advance Russia's strategic objectives (AC Vol 64 No 19 Kremlin ponders its post-Wagner options)...

After the death of the Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last August and a slow purge of his associates by the Russian military intelligence service the GRU the Kremlin remains heavily embedded in the African country where it has the strongest links (AC Vol 64 No 19 Kremlin ponders its post-Wagner options)...

In 2019 Russia's Wagner military company led by Yevgeny Prigozhin was hired by Nyusi to boost his election campaign...

The same month brought the appearance at least online of the Africa Corps a new military/commercial formation designed to seamlessly merge all the functions of the Wagner Group with the Russian state in the wake of the death last August of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin...

The importance to the Kremlin of the AMTV operation and other disinformation in Africa is shown by the fact that after Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin's coup attempt against the Russian government failed in June he continued to be seen on AMTV including greeting African leaders at the Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg at the end of July attended by 17 heads of state...

Biya does not have a public relationship with Wagner but its late leader Yevgeny Prigozhin met many African public figures at the St Petersburg summit in July...

The crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin's jet on 23 August was both expected and full of surprises...