What if Moscow’s most dangerous moves right now aren’t in Europe, but along the Gulf of Guinea?With its resources sunk deep into Ukraine, the Russian military has weighed carefully whether and when to engage elsewhere, standing aside amid recent conflicts in the South Caucasus and Middle East. An exception to this pattern of inaction is in West Africa. After the failed mutiny of Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in June 2023, the Russian government established a new paramilitary group called Africa Corps, tethered closely to the military chain of command. The unit then progressively took over most of Wagner’s operationsThe post Russia Is Shrewdly Playing the Long Game in Africa appeared first on War on the Rocks.