WAGNER GROUP DENIES OPERATING IN SUDAN

Wed 19 Apr 2023:

On Wednesday, the Russian private military Wagner Group denied having any operations in Sudan and and said it had nothing to do with battles rocking the giant impoverished African state.

In March 2022, Western diplomats in Khartoum claimed that Wagner was engaged in illegal gold mining in Sudan among other things. Sudan refuted this claim.

“Due to the large number of inquiries from various foreign media about Sudan, most of which are provocative, we consider it necessary to inform everyone that Wagner staff have not been in Sudan for more than two years,” the group wrote on Telegram.

RUSSIAN MERCENARIES IN SUDAN: WHAT IS THE WAGNER GROUP’S ROLE?

Wagner had not had contacts for a long time with either Sudan’s military ruler, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, or paramilitary chief General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, whose forces are at the heart of the current conflict, it said.

Companies associated with Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin have no financial interests in Sudan, it added, saying the conflict was a purely internal Sudanese affair.

The present offensive to take the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is being led by Wagner mercenaries, who have previously been used to combat militants in Mali and the Central African Republic.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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