00:00The Wagner Group may not really exist anymore since the death of its founder, Yevgeny Prygazhin,
00:07but Russia's influence operations on the African continent are far from over.
00:12A new international investigation by several media outlets has revealed that Russia's foreign intelligence agency,
00:19known as SVR, took over operations that were previously executed by Wagner Group mercenaries.
00:25These influence operations aim to push Moscow's economic, military and political interests across multiple African countries.
00:35The means to achieve these goals are varied and include disinformation campaigns and pushing Russians off power.
00:44The investigation was launched after internal documents from the spy network were anonymously sent to the editor-in-chief of
00:51the media outlet The Continent.
00:52The files included more than 1,400 pages in Russian.
00:58They detailed strategic plans, staff biographies, operational reports and summaries of disinformation campaigns carried out between January and November 2024.
01:10The investigators also revealed the nearly systematic involvement of the SVR across Russian operations in Africa.
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