Subject type: State-controlled expeditionary paramilitary formation Jurisdiction: Russian Federation, Ministry of Defence Also known as: Afrikanskiy Korpus, Африканский корпус File opened: 5 August 2026 Last updated: 5 August 2026 Origin Africa Corps was stood up in late 2023, in the months after Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny and death, to take over the Wagner Group's African … [Read more...] about Africa Corps: Russia’s Ministry of Defence Successor to Wagner, Structure and Deployments