INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Moscow said Friday that the Wagner Group would continue to work in African countries if their governments chose to maintain contracts with
the private military group."The future of the agreements between African countries and the Wagner private military company is above all up
to the governments of the countries concerned," Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters during a briefing Friday.His comments
come as the Kremlin moves to dissolve Wagner by handing its military hardware to the regular army and offering exile to mercenaries who took
already come under Western sanctions over their destabilizing role in several African countries.The UN human rights body last month reported
town of Moura in March 2022.Lavrov said that while some Russian military trainers had been deployed to the Central African Republic at the
request of local authorities, Wagner's presence in the region was beyond Moscow's jurisdiction."As for Wagner, which also worked there and
in several other African countries, this agreement was concluded directly between the respective governments and Wagner," he added.
