HOURS after Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary group ended their rebellion, officials with the Russian Foreign Ministry phoned the president of the Central African Republic to assure him that the thousands of Wagner fighters deployed in his country would stay, and that Russia would keep looking for new ventures in Africa.
Thousands of miles away, and as the rebellion was still under way in June, Russian troops in Syria had surrounded several bases that host Wagner fighters, fearing the contagion might spread beyond Russia.
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