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Russian role in Burkina Faso crisis comes under scrutiny

Burkina Faso coup leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore during a ceremony in Ouagadougou, Oct. 15, 2022. Questions are swirling in Burkina Faso about what role Russia may have played in the West African nation's second coup this year. [AP]

Within hours of Burkina Faso's second coup this year, the head of Russia's shadowy mercenary outfit Wagner Group was among the first to congratulate the new junta leader in West Africa.

In a message posted on Telegram, Yevgeny Prigozhin praised the mutinous soldiers for doing what "was necessary."

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