{"id":26965,"date":"2023-11-26T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/?p=26965"},"modified":"2023-11-26T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:59:44","slug":"wagner-makes-8m-a-month-from-terror-in-mali-as-desperate-putin-plunders-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/world-news\/wagner-makes-8m-a-month-from-terror-in-mali-as-desperate-putin-plunders-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner makes \u00a38m a month from terror in Mali as desperate Putin plunders gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mercenaries from the\u00a0Wagner Group are making \u00a38million a month waging war in Mali as it exchanges African gold to help fund Vladimir Putin’s war machine, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Business for the terror group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin until his violent death in August is booming in Africa where proxy wars have brought chaos and sparked horrific bloodshed.<\/p>\n

The military junta which seized power in a coup invited Wagner in to smash Islamic State terrorists in 2021 and since then they have propped up the military regime.<\/p>\n

In June, Washington accused Wagner of helping to engineer the exit of United Nations peacekeeping troops from the west African republic.<\/p>\n

US intelligence experts have said the mercenary group is benefitting from its activities in Mali to the tune of \u00a38million per month.<\/p>\n

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Professor Salvador S\u00e1nchez Tapi, an expert in conflict analysis at the University of Navarra, told The Sun Wagner offers a broad portfolio of violence, atrocities and human rights violations.<\/p>\n

He added that in Mali anything related to buttressing the junta takes precedence over improving the overall security situation in the country.<\/p>\n

Russia and Mali both insist the Russian fighters in the African country are not mercenaries but trainers helping local troops fight an insurgency by Islamist militants.<\/p>\n

But shocking video emerged in September which appeared to show the moment a Russian-made Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft exploded in Mali<\/span>, with some reports claiming Wagner mercenaries were on board.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Moscow has been accused of earning huge profits on the back of Wagner’s turning Mali into a battleground which has seen hundreds of civilians killed and wounded.<\/p>\n

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Witnesses told Human Rights Watch armed, non-French speaking foreigners were present in attacks on villages.<\/p>\n

They described the foreign soldiers as either white, Russian or Wagner.<\/p>\n

In one such case, “foreign” soldiers attacked the village of S\u00e9gu\u00e9la which led to the grim discovery of eight bodies on February 3.<\/p>\n

A Human Rights Watch report claimed Mali\u2019s armed forces have killed at least 175 civilians between April to September, with the backing of Wagner forces.<\/p>\n

Wagner’s atrocities in Africa come as the Kremlin takes more and more interest in the continent’s gold as Russia seeks ways to finance its bloody war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n