UK criticised for 'lack of understanding' of Wagner's activities in Africa
The UK government has been sharply criticised by the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee for under-estimating the dangerous growth of Russia's Wagner mercenary group.
Wagner has developed a highly successful and profitable business model in these countries, enriching itself and its client rulers, mostly at the expense of the local population.The committee, which for the first time has commissioned open-source investigative research for its 82-page report, asserts that for 10 years the British government has "under-played and under-estimated the Wagner Network's activities, as well as the security implications for Europe".
The Wagner Group is accused of murdering hundreds of civilians in that country while helping to prop up the regime that pays their salaries. "The UK must provide an alternative for countries that are struggling', it adds. "It is a foreign policy goal of the Kremlin to force failing states to rely on the Wagner network."
Ms Kearns told the BBC that the Wagner group was symptomatic of the wider need to regulate Private Military Companies .
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