OPERATIONS CONTINUE AFTER PRIGOZHIN’S DEATH: WAGNER PMC

Tue 26 September 2023:

Wagner’s press service stated on Tuesday that the group’s operations in Africa and Belarus will continue despite the death of its leader, Evgeny Prigozhin.

“PMC (private military company) Wagner continues its work in the African and Belarusian directions. There is no question of closing the company. The command of the PMC keeps solving all the tasks and managing the company,” it said on Telegram.

Prigozhin died in a plane crash on Aug. 23, two months after Wagner attempted a short-lived rebellion against the Russian government.

Wagner became central to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and Prigozhin’s troops helped to spread Russian influence across the globe, propping up allies of President Vladimir Putin in Africa and Syria.

Wagner fighters have been accused of widespread human rights abuses in several countries.

In 2021, a BBC investigation found evidence that implicated members of the group in Libya in the execution of civilians and the unlawful use of anti-personnel mines and booby traps in family homes around Tripoli.

In Mali, figures from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled) show that militant violence more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, with civilians making up the highest number of casualties.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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