The Latest Breaking News from Wagner

Ukraine has been trying to recapture strategically significant village for days as part of counteroffensive

One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced

Russian military targeted residential areas, factories and mobile communications towers, says regional governor

A local activist in Niger with ties to the military regime says the only way to avoid conflict in the country between mutinous soldiers that ousted the president and regional nations who are threatening an invasion to reinstate him, is to recognize the new regime as the ones in power

West African heads of state are planning to meet after Niger’s military junta defied their deadline to reinstate the deposed president who’s said to be running low on food in deteriorating conditions under house arrest

West African leaders expected to meet on Thursday to discuss response to generals who have deposed Niger’s president.

Voters in the Central African Republic overwhelmingly approved a draft constitution paving the way for President Faustin Archange Touadera to seek a third term as president. However NGOs and civil society groups accuse the government of circumventing democracy.

Nigeriens face deepening uncertainty about whether a regional bloc will follow through on its threat to use military force to try to reinstall ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, nearly two weeks after mutinous soldiers overthrew the democratically elected leader

Ministry of Defence in London believes the Rosgvardia is being better equipped to deal with ‘internal security threats’

After last week’s surprise coup in Niger, the Russian military group Wagner is taking advantage of the chaos and anti-French sentiment, says journalist Garé Amadou in Niamey, while ordinary Nigeriens are preparing for the worst

Belarus has begun military exercises near its border with Poland and Lithuania