Niger: the prospect of a deployment of Russian soldiers divides the junta. The arrival of new Russian mercenaries is creating turmoil in the Sahel.
The “African corps” which replaces the Wagner group announced on Telegram on January 24, the deployment of a contingent of around a hundred men in Burkina Faso. The meeting took place in Moscow on January 16, on the sidelines of the visit of Nigerien Prime Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine. On one side Salifou Modi for Niger, on the other the Russian vice ministers Alexandre Fomin and Younous Evkourov.