Prigozhin’s Ghost Haunts Africa Corps

The Wagner Group is no more but Moscow is peddling the same false promises.

This photograph shows the newly-inaugurated bronze statue in the likeness of the late Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitru Utkin erected in Bangui, Central African Republic on Dec. 3, 2024. September 3, 2025, 6:00 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Two years ago, Wagner Group frontman Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash along with the group’s top deputies. A fiery propagandist and restaurateur turned mercenary warlord, Prigozhin led a mutiny against the Russian Defense Ministry in June 2023, just two months prior to his demise. The rebellion, spurred on by Wagner’s treatment in the Ukraine war and interpersonal conflicts bet

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