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Philip Obaji Jr.

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Uncovering Russian crimes in Africa; One World Media International Journalist of the Year 2023; Jaime Brunet International Prize 2022; Please donate to uncover Russian atrocities: https://www.gofundme.com/f/philip-obaji-uncover-russian-atrocities-africa

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Glad to speak on Russian disinformation and human rights atrocities committed by Russian paramilitaries at an event hosted in Geneva, Switzerland, by the Missions of Latvia, Estonia and Poland to the United Nations.

20.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 102    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 2
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What a welcome I’ve had in Ukraine, where I have met some of the bravest and most resilient people on earth. Thanks to the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for the invitation.

19.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 93    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 0
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I’m glad to receive the Knight International Journalism Award. This award isn’t just for me—it’s for every journalist who risks their life to shine a light in dark places. It’s for the three Russian journalists killed in Central African Republic in 2018. It’s for you, my friends

15.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 108    🔁 20    💬 7    📌 1
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Musalia Mudavadi says over 200 Kenyans fighting for Russia in Ukraine - BBC News Russian recruitment networks are targeting Kenyans with fake job offers, authorities say.

Kenya says over 200 of its citizens are fighting for Russia in Moscow's war in Ukraine, and that recruiting agencies are still actively working to lure more Kenyans into the conflict.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

13.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 52    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m here to tell friends about atrocities committed by Russian paramilitaries deployed across Africa

12.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 86    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 0
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Beautiful welcome to Washington Post HQ. Excited to meet some of the world’s most amazing journalists and happy to continue to uncover and document abuses committed by Russian paramilitaries in Africa.

11.11.2025 17:14 — 👍 47    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0
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Ukraine claims soldiers from African countries are fighting Russia’s ‘meat assaults’ Russia accused of luring Africans into ‘death sentence’ contracts

More than 1,400 citizens from 36 African nations are reportedly fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials claim these African soldiers are fighting for Russia’s ‘meat assaults’

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

09.11.2025 21:16 — 👍 73    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1
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Russia organises flights from the Middle East to Moscow, giving migrants access to the Belarusian and then EU borders.
www.euractiv.com/news/russia-...

02.11.2025 19:56 — 👍 116    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 0
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Ukrainian and Moldovan authorities have identified 654 mercenaries who fought in Russian private military companies Wagner Group and Redut during a joint operation. The Wagner Group is responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths in Africa.
english.nv.ua/amp/wagner-m...

01.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 129    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 1
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For years, I've been exposing Russia's atrocities in Africa—from Wagner's blood-soaked mines in CAR to their wars in Mali. The truth hurts, and now Russian trolls are targeting me with insults & death threats. They want me silenced. I won't be. Africa's stories deserve to be told.

30.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 192    🔁 64    💬 4    📌 1
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It was such a huge honor to have described crimes committed by Russian paramilitaries deployed in West & Central Africa at the Truth to Justice conference in Berlin.

29.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 133    🔁 34    💬 4    📌 2
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Donate to Help Philip Obaji uncover Russian atrocities across Africa, organized by Yarno Ritzen A brave journalist and an unparalleled champion of the protect… Yarno Ritzen needs your support for Help Philip Obaji uncover Russian atrocities across Africa

Russian paramilitaries are committing massacres, raping women & worse across Africa. I’m risking everything to expose them. Please donate to my GoFundMe & help uncover the truth. Every contribution matters.
www.gofundme.com/f/philip-oba...

28.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 85    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 2
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Spoke about killings and abuses committed by Russian mercenaries in West and Central Africa at the migration congress in Mérida, Spain. Many were shocked.

27.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 118    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 1
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Gang involved in arson attack on London warehouse for Wagner Group jailed The attack targeted a warehouse used to supply humanitarian aid and StarLink satellite equipment to Ukraine.

A gang involved in a Russian mercenary group-ordered arson attack on a London warehouse providing aid to Ukraine have been jailed.

news.sky.com/story/gang-i...

26.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 62    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1
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With sadness, I spoke about massacre, rape and human rights atrocities committed by Russian paramilitaries deployed in West and Central Africa at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. It was shocking to so many.

25.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 175    🔁 53    💬 7    📌 2
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From Africa to Eastern Europe, I’ve listened to many people talk about the brutality of Russian fighters who’ve committed human rights abuses in these areas. It doesn’t matter where it happens, the stories are similar. We can’t be quiet. We betray our friends when we stay silent.

24.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 157    🔁 50    💬 4    📌 2
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Fired up and ready to speak about atrocities committed by Russian paramilitaries in Africa

22.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 203    🔁 39    💬 5    📌 2
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Russian spies 'are helping gangs smuggle illegal migrants into Europe' Daniel Mitov, the Bulgarian home secretary, said his government had evidence of direct links between Russia's foreign intelligence agency and the criminal operations. Pictured: File photo

Russian spies 'are helping gangs smuggle illegal migrants into Europe'

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

20.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 106    🔁 42    💬 5    📌 4
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Russia and Belarus have manipulated illegal migration, using it as a hybrid weapon against Poland and Western nations.

18.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 130    🔁 47    💬 5    📌 4
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The Wagner group in Mali This report documents how weapons and military equipment intended for Mali’s armed forces were rerouted to the Wagner Group between 2021 and 2025, a practice that undermines global arms control regime...

New report reveals that weapons and military equipment intended for Mali’s armed forces were rerouted to the Russian Wagner Group between 2021 and 2025, a practice that undermines global arms control regimes and enabled serious human rights abuses.

globalinitiative.net/analysis/pri...

17.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 90    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 0
Award-winning investigative journalist Philip Obaji talks rights abuses in West and Central Africa
YouTube video by VOA Africa Award-winning investigative journalist Philip Obaji talks rights abuses in West and Central Africa

For the last six years, I have uncovered human rights abuses by Russian mercenaries in West & Central Africa, despite facing personal danger, including being held hostage and tortured by Central African Republic soldiers on the orders of Russian fighters

youtu.be/9pzD1XjZEXE?...

15.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 100    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0
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Centrafrique : Massacre d’éleveurs soudanais par des mercenaires russes près d’Amdafock provoque des représailles contre des villageoises centrafricains Une opération meurtrière de mercenaires russes contre des éleveurs soudanais près d’Amdafock a déclenché des représailles sanglantes, laissant les populations civiles centrafricaines exposées aux veng...

Last month, Russian paramilitaries reportedly slaughtered at least five Sudanese Arab herders near the village of Guila in the Central African Republic.

corbeaunews-centrafrique.org/centrafrique...

13.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 60    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 2
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Centrafrique : deux civils froidement assassinés par les mercenaires russes du groupe Wagner à Ngbafio, dans la Nana-Mambéré Dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi dernier, 22 motos et deux véhicules militaires transportant des mercenaires russes du groupe Wagner lourdement armés ont quitté Bouar pour se diriger vers Gallo, à 60...

Last weekend, Russian paramilitaries shot dead two farmers who were cultivating on their farmlands in the northwestern Central African village of Ngbafio. Too many civilians have been killed or raped on their farmlands in the Central African Republic.

corbeaunews-centrafrique.org/centrafrique...

10.10.2025 21:03 — 👍 52    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1
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The migrant soldiers - josimarfootball.com For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine.

For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine. Many of the recruits are Africans.

josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...

09.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 69    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 1
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Russia has a long history of using migration as a weapon in its hybrid warfare against the West. From Africa to North America and to Eastern Europe, the Kremlin has deliberately pushed waves of migrants to Western nations in an attempt to create chaos.

08.10.2025 21:03 — 👍 111    🔁 38    💬 1    📌 6
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Kenyan Family Worried After Kin Recruited by African Wagner Group Disappears in Russia - Citynews A family is expressing profound distress and seeking urgent assistance regarding the welfare and whereabouts of their brother, Mr. Oscar Khagola Mutoka, a

Kenyan Family Worried After Kin Recruited by the Wagner Group Disappears in Russia
citynews.co.ke/kenyan-famil...

06.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 55    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1
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“If a colonel couldn’t do anything, what could I do?”: A Belarusian border guard’s confession In the second half of 2021, a systematic effort by the Belarusian government created a crisis on the EU’s eastern border: the authorities in Minsk began bringing would-be migrants into Belarus, then t...

Four years ago, a systematic effort by the Belarusian government created a crisis on the EU’s eastern border: the authorities in Minsk began bringing would-be migrants into Belarus, then transporting them to the frontier with Poland and the Baltic states.
theins.ru/en/confessio...

05.10.2025 21:38 — 👍 74    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 1
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Fired up and ready to speak about atrocities committed by Russian paramilitaries in Africa to journalists, activists and human rights campaigners from around the world, gathered in Mérida, Spain, for the International Congress on Migration and Development Journalism.

03.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 130    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 1

“Migrants are used as an instrument by the regime to put pressure on the European Union’s borders, and our neighbours are really suffering from this.” — Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

30.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 67    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0
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Mali: des vétérans de Wagner narrent leurs crimes et s'en prennent aux militaires maliens Des vétérans de Wagner racontent leurs années au Mali. Dans un documentaire de 2h40 révélé par nos confrères de Jeune Afrique, et que RFI a pu visionner, les mercenaires reviennent sur les principales...

Russian paramilitaries admit to committing war crimes in Mali. They broke into homes, burned camps and shot on sight from vehicles belonging to the Malian armed forces. These are the kind of atrocities I’ve spent years uncovering in Mali and in Central Africa
www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2...

29.09.2025 19:08 — 👍 75    🔁 39    💬 2    📌 1