"Monitoring Wagner Mercenaries in Africa" with Lou Osborn
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This week we were joined by Swiss-based NGO Inpact’s Lou Osborn.
Lou is one of the lead researchers in their flagship All Eyes ON Wagner project team. Within the conversation she broadened our knowledge on the current economic and political status of Russian PMCs in Africa and raised the difficulties in reporting on these types of groups.
This talk was hosted by Charlotte Maher on Thursday the 05th of June 2025. Music featured is courtesy of Artlist.
Recorded live in the Bellingcat Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/bellingcat
Links discussed:
All Eyes on Wagner: https://alleyesonwagner.org/home-2/about/
Lou's books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/32765804.Lou_Osborn
Dig baby dig investigation: https://alleyesonwagner.org/2025/05/02/allez-creuse-bebe-contes-russes-de-lor-en-afrique-centrale/
Prig-IT investigation: https://dossier.center/prig-it/
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