Subject type: Paramilitary formation, de facto governing authority in part of Sudan Jurisdiction: Sudan, no recognised legal status since 2023 Also known as: RSF, Quwat al-Da'm al-Sari, Janjaweed successor File opened: 15 August 2026 Last updated: 15 August 2026 Origin The RSF was formally created in 2013 out of Darfur militias that the Sudanese government had armed and … [Read more...] about Rapid Support Forces (RSF): Origin, Command, Territorial Control and External Supply
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Africa Corps: Russia’s Ministry of Defence Successor to Wagner, Structure and Deployments
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