Maxim Shugaley, a Russian sociologist who became famous for films made about his misadventure in Libya, is the new head of the Russian network in Africa that runs mines, consults for governments, mercenary troops, smuggles of all kinds, and has become a power comparable to that of
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They are mercenaries known for their ferocity and determination. They appear in a conflict, like ghosts, and carry out massacres – only to disappear again. During the invasion of Ukraine, when Putin realised that conscripts were being slaughtered by the Kiev army, he sent them to defend
Read more →These are images of the same area in southern Libya – as it was in the days when the Roman Empire fought the Carthaginians, and as it is today. Two different and apparently irreconcilable planets. But this is not the case: the Sahel became Sahara (a desert)
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