Faustin-Archange Touadéra is a Central African politician and mathematician who has been president of the Central African Republic since March 2016, and was previously its prime minister from 2008 to
Touadéra in 2025
Touadéra with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, 11 April 2019
Touadéra with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia–Africa Summit in Sochi on 23 October 2019
President Touadéra with one of his two wives, First Lady Brigitte Touadéra, at the 65th independence parade in 2025
The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company that was controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vlad
Faustin-Archange Touadéra
…Central African election, both of which took place amid low voter turnout and political violence. Since at least 2023, Touadéra has been backed by the Wagner Group, a Russian state-sponsored private military company financing his elections and launching disinformation campaigns for him while intimidating his…
The PMC Wagner Center office in Saint Petersburg
Wagner Group graves among other military graves in the Kurgan cemetery, Sovetsky City District, Kazan
Prigozhin was in a public feud with Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu.
Grave of Wagner Group fighter Khalil Amirov at the Kurgan Cemetery in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, May 2024