WAGNER BASE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC TARGETED BY AN UNKNOWN AIRCRAFT

Tue 29 November 2022:

After explosives were dropped nearby a base for Russian mercenaries operating with the country’s military by a low-flying fighter plane, authorities in the Central African Republic launched an investigation.

The Wagner Group outpost in Russia and nearby residences were reportedly targeted, according to witnesses, during the incident that happened in the early hours of Monday at the Cotenaf base in Bossangoa.

Who was in control of the airplane that dropped the explosives was not immediately known.

The unidentified aircraft left the country’s airspace after the incident, according to a statement from Information Minister Serge Ghislain Djorie.

“This despicable act perpetrated by the enemies of peace will not go unpunished,” Djorie said.

Wagner Group have helped to hold off armed rebel groups and to keep President Faustin-Archange Touadera in power.

However, the mercenary group has also been accused for violating human rights. In a report earlier this year, the U.N.’s independent expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic identified a number of assaults that it claimed were carried out on orders from the country’s armed forces and their partners in the Wagner Group.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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