The Embassy of Canada in Bamako is following the situation and providing consular service for Canadians in Niger. Canadians in need of urgent consular assistance can contact the Emergency Watch and ...

Bamako — The Malian government has expressed "its deep concern at the persistence, on the part of some Algerian authorities, of continuous acts of interference in the internal affairs of the ...

Yevgeny Prigozhin was a Russian oligarch and close friend of President Vladimir Putin. He was sometimes known as 'Putin's chef' and was confirmed as the founder of the Wagner group in 2022 ...

The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...

Responding to the challenge in a televised address, Putin accused Prighozin -- whose private army provided shock troops for Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine -- of a “stab in the back” that posed a threat ...

The Wagner Group is a Russian paramilitary organisation that has been described as the de facto private army of President Vladimir Putin. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper ...