Wagner is facing its first big test in Africa since Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny, as the Russian mercenary group attempts to shore up the Central African Republic’s ruler during a divisive referendum.
President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has called a controversial vote on July 30 to override the CAR’s constitutional bar on running for a third term, raising tensions in a country that has been battling rebel groups for a decade.
Touadéra owes his survival to the Wagner fighters who arrived in 2018 to instruct the CAR army and helped thwart an attempted rebellion two years later.
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