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‘It is like a virus that spreads’: Wagner group’s extensive business network across Africa paused for now

‘It is like a virus that spreads’: Wagner group’s extensive business network across Africa paused for now

Business interests of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s military group are likely to prove too profitable for Kremlin to lose

Four days after Wagner group mercenaries marched on Moscow, a Russian envoy flew into Benghazi to meet a worried local warlord. The message from the Kremlin to Khalifa Haftar, the self-styled general who runs much of eastern Libya, was reassuring: the more than 2,000 Wagner fighters, technicians, political operatives and administrators in the country would be staying.

“There will be no problem here. There may be some changes at the top but the mechanism will stay the same: the people on the ground, the money men in Dubai, the contacts, and the resources committed to Libya,” the envoy told Haftar in his fortified palatial residence. “Don’t worry, we aren’t going anywhere.”

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