{"id":16574,"date":"2026-04-27T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/16574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:32:31","slug":"who-are-the-russian-mercenaries-operating-in-mali-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/16574\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Russian mercenaries operating in Mali? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Who are the Russian mercenaries operating in Mali? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okim7F1f5-A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWho are the Russian mercenaries operating in Mali? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfrica Corps, a paramilitary group controlled by Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry, confirmed on Monday that its forces had withdrawn from the northern town of Kidal in Mali after \u200cfierce fighting there. Africa Corps has been supporting the Malian junta since deploying to Mali in 2025. But Russia&#8217;s presence in the country stretches back to 2021.<br \/>\n#Mali #rebels #jihadists<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who are the Russian mercenaries operating in Mali? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English Africa Corps, a paramilitary group controlled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20772,9036,233,20611,22,23,20,21,20609,20612,13326,13327,11242,2636,17,20610,20773],"class_list":{"0":"post-16574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-africa-corps","9":"tag-al-qaeda","10":"tag-attacks","11":"tag-defence-minister","12":"tag-france-24","13":"tag-france-24-english","14":"tag-france24","15":"tag-france24-english","16":"tag-jamaat-nusrat-al-islam","17":"tag-jihadists","18":"tag-jnim","19":"tag-mali","20":"tag-mercenaries","21":"tag-rebels","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-sadio-camara","24":"tag-wagner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116477405623390336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}