Diamond traders and Wagner official with gold trade links sanctioned
Two diamond traders and a Wagner Group official in the Central African Republic (CAR) linked with the gold trade are among the entities and individuals named in Washington’s latest round of Russian sanctions. The US treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed…
Africa in firing line as more sanctions target Wagner Group
Fresh sanctions have been imposed by European and North American countries on the Wagner Group, the Russia-based private military company founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin. Sanctions are increasingly focused on the group’s African operations, with the US taking the decision to impose sanctions on a senior…
Sanctions alone will not stop Wagner’s African operations or Russian oil trades
The Atlantic Council, the Washington-based nonpartisan think tank and public policy organisation, has published a comprehensive analysis of the Wagner Group that concludes that sanctions have been ineffective at curbing the activities of the private military company based in Russia.
