Russia’s extensive courtship of Burkina Faso in recent months has included 25,000 metric tons of free wheat, an agreement to build a nuclear power plant, a personal security detail for junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traoré and now 100 paramilitary fighters.
The “military specialists” will train Burkinabe forces and patrol dangerous areas, according to a statement on Telegram by The Africa Initiative, a pro-Russia news agency.
The Africa Corps is a repackaging of the infamous Wagner Group, which has been dogged by accusations and credible evidence of massacres, rape, torture, theft and smuggling across the continent.
Is this move a threat to ECOWAS?
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