The president of the Central African Republic has defended his government’s continued hosting of Russian mercenaries, saying they were helping to bring security to a state that has been threatened by armed groups.
“I smile when people ask me why there are Russians in my country,” Faustin-Archange Touadéra, said of the roughly 1,500 Wagner operatives in a rare interview.
“The day my country was in trouble, I looked for my friends, but only a few came,” he said, referring to a period of instability around elections in 2020 when both Russian and Rwandan fighters helped suppress a rebel offensive.
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