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Military Contractor Deaths Raise Questions About Russia's Security Presence
in Africa

Salem Solomon

   WASHINGTON - The deaths in northern Mozambique of military contractors
   employed by a Russian firm are raising new questions about Russia's
   security presence in Africa.

   Five soldiers employed by the Wagner Group, a private military firm
   with connections to the Kremlin, and 20 soldiers in FADM, the
   Mozambique Defense Armed Forces, were killed in an ambush in Cabo
   Delgado Province's Muidumbe district on Oct. 27, according to [1]Carta
   de Moçambique, a local publication. Insurgents were said also to have
   burned two vehicles in the ambush.

   VOA reached out to the Mozambique government for comment but did not
   receive a response. Russia denies its soldiers are in Mozambique, and
   Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier in October, "As far as
   Mozambique is concerned, there are no Russian soldiers there,"
   according to [2]Russian state-owned media. Peskov added that his
   country is more focused on forging economic and security ties with
   African nations.
   

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