Treasury Targets Malian Officials Facilitating Wagner Group

July 24, 2023 WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three Malian transition government and military officials for facilitating the deployment and expansion of the Private Military Company ‘Wagner’’s (Wagner Group) activities in Mali. The United States took this step based on evidence showing that these ... Read More»

Wagner Group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, and Russia’s Disinformation in Africa

Wagner Group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, and Russia’s Disinformation in Africa MAY 24, 2022 Russia deploys disinformation across different continents for varied objectives, often working through tested proxies to support Kremlin foreign policy objectives indirectly, which provides a level of deniability. In some parts of Africa – including, most recently, Mali – Kremlin-linked proxies exploit instability to ... Read More»
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