Is Russia proving better at protecting friends than fighting enemies in West Africa?
Unlike Wagner mercenaries, whose status in a private military company allowed Moscow some deniability, Africa Corps is more clearly an instrument of the Russian state.
Following a night of intense fighting in Niamey, Russia's Africa Corps helped Nigerien loyalist forces to regain control of Air Base 101 at Diori Hamani International Airport."[Niger is] underplaying the role that Africa Corps has in these countries, and they're overplaying the resource-nationalism narrative - the idea that the government is in control and fighting back against the jihadists," explained Boswall."
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