The private mercenary company, Wagner, announced its withdrawal from Mali. The government there hired the company to help wage war against an insurgency. But as Philip Obaji Jr., a reporter based in Nigeria who has followed Wagner for years, explains, the Russian strategic campaign on the African continent will remain the same.
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