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Wagner in Africa | James Pogue | Granta

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‘Many people in the country seem happy to accept mercenaries in exchange for stability.’ James Pogue on the Wagner Group in the Central African Republic.

Wagner in Africa | James Pogue | Granta Skip to main content Wagner in Africa James Pogue it exists --> I was always confused about where people left their guns. Most of my days in the Central African Republic were spent on the riverside terrace of the Hôtel Oubangui, and although this was not by choice, it did turn out to be a convenient place to sense the atmosphere of intrigue that was settling over Bangui. It was the kind of mood that excites journalists. ‘Rarely has such a fragrance of Cold War wafted over the banks of the Oubangui,’ wrote the pan-African current affairs magazine Jeune Af

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