How Wagner plundered Sudan’s gold

Wagner was granted permission to land on a military base in Khartoum and to use "the signal code of the air force for the purpose of operating internally and externally". It was, in effect, a licence to fly weapons into the country and gold out of it — without being officially declared or detected. In Sudan, then, it appears we have yet another conflict sparked by a struggle for a nation's wealth and weapons. But if that were the spark, the Wagner Group was the match. A new Cold War is playing out in Africa — and Africa seems unlikely to win.

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