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🇲🇱📜A study by GITOC (Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime) highlights the "diversion" of weapons from Malian forces by #Wagner.
3/3 Despite no evidence for alleged espionage, sabotage, or terrorism, spread by Russian disinformation, #CAR authorities have rejected all conditional release requests. His brother, Georges Martin, urges all mechanisms be used to secure Joseph’s immediate release.
🧵1/4 The steady decline of the #AfricaCorps
After its June 13, 2025 defeat in Kidal, #Mali, Niger & Burkina Faso seek renewed U.S. support. The loss, the worst since Tinzaouaten, exposed a weakening Africa Corps, increasingly vulnerable to rebel & JNIM tactics.
3/4 #Mali’s military says poor coordination worsens #AfricaCorps’ failures. Joint patrols are increasingly avoided, with Malian forces seeing PMC incompetence as a chance for jihadists to stage easy ambushes. Operational weakness now fuels threats rather than containing them.
4/4 Weaknesses fuel atrocities : massacres in Abelel, Eghacher-Sedide & Ibdakan in June saw civilians burned alive alongside the FAMA. #AfricaCorps remains ineffective against jihadists, yet deepens regional instability inherited from Wagner, with economic & security fallout.
🧵1/6 From #Wagner to the #AfricaCorps : GRU’s Unit 29155 is behind the scenes. Notorious for sabotage, poisonings & assassinations in Europe, it now oversees Russia’s African ops. Officially absent, it wages a brutal, hybrid war, no uniforms, real consequences.
6/6 Sanctions & investigations link Averyanov (Unit 29155) to #AfricaCorps. #Russia denies everything, letting agents wage faceless war : sabotage, cyberattacks, repression. Unit 29155 doctrine scales up, testing a new imperialism, with #Africa paying the highest cost.
🧵1/5 Tatarstan is becoming the Kremlin’s gateway to #Africa. Recruitment centers near Kazan lure workers with huge bonuses and travel perks. Promoted as "unique experience" & "equal partnership", it actually exploits labor to serve #Moscow’s ambitions.
#AfricaCorps
4/5 Behind the #AfricaCorps rhetoric, financial incentives bite. Signing contracts can erase up to 10M rubles in debt. Vulnerable citizens are bought with promises, risking their lives for #Moscow’s ambitions, echoing eras when poverty fueled geopolitical goals.
5/5 Officially, #AfricaCorps defends African sovereignty from "Western neo-colonialism". In reality, it serves Kremlin power projection and sidesteps #Wagner’s fading reputation. Tatarstan’s youth, infrastructure & Sahel links are exploited, while locals pay the hidden price.
🧵1/6 Extortion, torture, massacres : #Wagner deepened Mali’s insecurity, with crises like 150k refugees in Mbera camp. Weeks later, #AfricaCorps repeated the same : brutality vs civilians, pay-for-service, battlefield defeats. #Mali’ s security keeps deteriorating.
5/6 Rebels adapt fast : FLA and #JNIM now use FPV #drones, fiber-optic IEDs bypassing Russian jammers, and captured armored vehicles. Civilian anger over abuses drives recruitment. Armed groups emerge stronger and more structured than before #AfricaCorps’ arrival.
