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No idea if there's truth in this but an interesting article here claiming Algeria is helping sponsor Wagner in Mali. It's the last 3 paragraphs that are of interest:

L’Algérie finance l’installation des mercenaires russes Wagner au Mali en contrepartie d’une discrète aide militaire au Polisario – Maghreb Intelligence

According to sources from Maghreb-intelligence, the other part of this agreement would be the recruitment, arming and training by the Russians of Wagner of an elite force made up of elements of the Polisario and certain Tuareg rebels. in order to carry out operations of explosions against the Moroccan defense wall. Since November 2020 and the cleaning by the Moroccans of the Guergarat border crossing, the Polisario, supported militarily by Algeria, has never been able to carry out the slightest operation against the Moroccan armed forces, despite more than 200 triumphalist statements. Today, Wagner would bring his expertise so that the Polisario could take advantage of a significant military act against Morocco, in particular at the approach of the anniversary date of the securing of the passage of Guergarat by the Moroccan army.
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Maghreb intelligence is a moroccan website ...
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But Reuters is not Moroccan afaik
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa...es-2021-09-13/

and I know you think Abdou Semmar is a Moroccan shill, but he is as Algerian as you but, based in Paris, dedicated to exposing the Algerian pouvoir
https://www.algeriepartplus.com/?s=wagner
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But Reuters is not Moroccan afaik
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa...es-2021-09-13/

and I know you think Abdou Semmar is a Moroccan shill, but he is as Algerian as you but, based in Paris, dedicated to exposing the Algerian pouvoir
https://www.algeriepartplus.com/?s=wagner
Reuters didn't talk about Algeria at all in the article.
Abdou Semmar we all know for whom he works, him, Aboud and the likes.

The fact that Wagner wants to be involved in Mali is one thing, stating that Algeria is financing the project and on top of that making Wagner involved in the western sahara decolonization issue is just pure nonsense.

Morroco is used to propagate such fake news through their numerous websites and media outlets.
Didn't they claim in the past that Hezbollah training the polisario front ? where are they, pure lies.

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Maghreb intelligence is a moroccan website ...
Thanks GDZ I wasn't aware - likely explains why no others have mentioned this link!
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Thanks GDZ I wasn't aware - likely explains why no others have mentioned this link!
Well, Priffe mentioned it
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