IN palmier times, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, appeared at a Russian cultural centre in the capital of the Central African Republic, sitting with schoolchildren and promising them free laptops.
But Prigozhin’s death in August has rattled the mercenary group’s once-cozy relations with the country, which is now weighing offers from Russia and Western countries, including the United States, to replace Wagner as its primary security guarantor.
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