The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country.

Wagner yesterday or Africa Corps today, our point of contact remains the same, it is the ... Kremlin,' a Malian security source said The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps,

The shift brings Russian support to ‘a more fundamental level’, says Kremlin-backed paramilitary force Africa Corps.