Hey Friends — I finally decided to raise money for my investigation into Russian atrocities across Africa, which I can no longer continue to do without support. Don’t want to discontinue this very important work. Please donate to keep this effort going: gofundme.com/f/philip-obaji-…

Russian mercenaries have turned African farmlands into rape sites, massacred villagers to seize gold, and tortured those who speak out. I’ve documented the crimes. They had me arrested and tortured for it. I won’t stop. Help me continue. Please donate gofundme.com/f/philip-obaji-…

From Warsaw, Russia’s War Against Europe Is Now Anything but Hybrid geopoliticalmonitor.com/russ…

Last year, Aleksandr Dubikov, a Russian GRU officer, broke into the Addis Ababa diplomatic residence, then in use by the chairperson Africa Union Commission & his family. He may have planted surveillance equipment or exfiltrated data while he was inside. youtube.com/watch?v=xAvCIpvh…

How Russia uses migrants as weapons against Europe nytimes.com/2026/10/02/world…

Putin’s “Doppelgängers”: The Insider gets inside the operations of the Kremlin's foreign disinformation network theins.press/en/inv/298359

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, following his fallout with Putin, left his son, Pavel, in charge of the world’s most notorious mercenary force. At 25 he inherited Wagner Group, an empire of gunfighters, gold smugglers, opioid dealers, brewers & vodka distillers wsj.com/world/africa/wagner-…

Russia is transporting weapons to Africa aboard commercial cargo ships, accompanied by men suspected of traveling under false identities. A review of records covering 2,000 ships identified 28 suspicious passengers on seven vessels.

Happy to speak in Oslo, Norway, on Understanding Russia’s Hybrid Warfare: Experiences from Arctic to Africa. Many thanks to the Ambassador of Latvia to the Kingdom of Norway for hosting me

Europe finds an unlikely partner in Russia-backed military government in North Africa as EU commits $29 million to stop migrants from crossing into its territory africa.businessinsider.com/l…

About 25,000 migrants from Africa and Asia cross into Italy and Greece through Russia-backed eastern Libya and Tunisia africa.businessinsider.com/l…

Africa’s largest uranium producer could soon hand Russia a major foothold in its nuclear ambitions africa.businessinsider.com/l…

Russia sending diplomats, intelligence officers banned from Europe to Africa news.err.ee/1609936274/russi…

Putin's Secret Gateway to Sahel: Russia Secures Togo Port Corridors firstpost.com/web-show/first…

Russia is expanding its military reach across Africa’s Sahel through an “air shadow fleet” of state and private aircraft supplying operations in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger africa.businessinsider.com/l…

Mali’s Tuareg rebels reveal contacts with Russia’s Africa Corps and seek Türkiye’s role azernews.az/region/263915.ht…

Russia takes Africa once again defence24.com/geopolitics/ru…

Russian fighters in Africa have used farmlands as rape sites, killed villagers to seize gold & tortured those who tried to speak. I’ve documented these crimes. They had me arrested & beaten. I won’t stop. Help me continue this investigation. Please donate gofundme.com/f/philip-obaji-…

At least 3,066 Africans from 40 countries have been recruited into Russia’s armed forces since October 2022, with 502 documented as killed in action by June 2026, in an operation that has drawn nationals from across the continent into the war in Ukraine theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/new…