Exposing Wagner Group’s disinformation network across Africa

In this edition, FRANCE 24’s François Picard speaks to Léa Perruchon, Journalist with Forbidden Stories, who details how journalism, France’s national security and their complex asylum policy clash. She also addresses Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo – a participant in Russia’s disinformation campaign in the Central African Republic who became a whistleblower. His crucial testimony helped uncover a Wagner-linked disinformation network across Africa. Following an intervention reportedly supported by the French presidency to evacuate him and his family from imminent danger, French authorities changed course and abruptly rejected his asylum application.