Russia’s Wagner Group Could Fuel Conflict in Sudan, Experts Say

Program Manager Ben Dalton comments about Wagner's potential involvement in the conflict in Sudan:

“Wagner Group does seem to engage with African countries on a pretty predictable sort of pattern,” said Ben Dalton, a program manager at New America’s Future Frontlines, a Washington-based research group.

“Normally it starts with a cultivation of elites, or at least a subset of elites, and then that is followed up with a formal military technical agreement between the states. And this could be something like Russia will supply arms in exchange for concessions that allow them to do mining or other kinds of resource extraction.”

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