Article by Cap’IvoireInfo
From Wagner to Africa Corps: the same executioners, the same crimes.
Malian refugees are finally breaking their silence. Their accounts shatter Bamako’s official narrative: the abuses have not stopped with the announced departure of Wagner.
The Russian mercenaries officially left Mali in June 2025. In reality, 70 to 80% of the men in Africa Corps would be former Wagner members. New name, same apparatus of violence.
On November 26, a patrol from the Africa Corps is said to have carried out a deadly operation against civilians.
Reported toll from refugees: 10 dead, including 4 burned alive, 2 women, 2 children, 2 men and 2 women seriously injured.
These attacks are part of a documented continuity: executions, disappearances, villages burned, tortures.
Civilians remain the primary victims of this “fight against terrorism.”
A woman testifies: “When I hear the name Wagner, I am afraid. They killed my husband. I am traumatized.”
Ahmed, merchant: “They beheaded two men in front of me and made me feel their fresh blood.”
This type of atrocity is systematically reported in areas controlled by Africa Corps.
The tortures described are of extreme brutality: electrocution, mock drownings, suffocation, beatings, humiliations, and sexual violence.
Ahmed recounts again: “They plunged my head into a water tank until I passed out. Then they placed their feet on my chest. I thought I was going to die.”
In several localities such as Léré, Nampala… military bases are said to have been transformed into torture centers.
A survivor claims: “They hit me so hard that I thought my end had come.”
The consequences are massive:
* 50,000 Malians have fled to the M’berra camp in Mauritania.
* At least 12 Fulani men executed and 81 documented forced disappearances.
* Publication of photos of rapes, tortures, and murders by Russian mercenaries on lelegram.
Wagner’s departure was nothing but an illusion. Africa Corps is merely prolonging the same methods, with the same impunity and the same executioners.
At this stage, one question remains: how much longer will Mali have to endure these acts of violence before a genuine mechanism for protecting civilians is activated?
Fear changes its name. The victims remain the same.
04-12-25
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