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In 2019, I travelled to Berengo Palace, outside Bangui, to interview Russian mercenaries.
Once the home of Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the Central African Republic’s self-crowned emperor, it was now occupied by fighters from the Wagner Group. One of the first things they told me was not about the country they had come to defend, but the country they had left.
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