The Russian private military Wagner Group denied activities in Sudan on Wednesday, saying it was uninvolved in the war that has engulfed the enormous, impoverished African nation.
Wagner was involved in illicit gold mining in Sudan, according to Western authorities in Khartoum in March 2022. Sudan said that this was not the case.
Wagner staff had not been in Sudan in over two years, and the group believed it was vital to inform everyone through Telegram owing to the “large number of inquiries from various foreign media about Sudan, the majority of which are provocative.”
Wagner was believed to have had no contact with either General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s military ruler, or General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the paramilitary leader whose soldiers are at the heart of the current conflict.
According to the statement, Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has no financial stake in the Sudan situation and believes that the war is a domestic concern for Sudan.
Wagner mercenaries are spearheading the assault on Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine. Previously, these mercenaries were deployed to confront rebels in Mali and the Central African Republic.
