Central Africa: Wood for War - How Wagner Was Paid in Central African Forest

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

[African Arguments] On 9 February 2021, as government troops and Russian mercenaries pushed rebels back from Bangui, the Central African Republic (CAR) signed Decree No. 21.044. It gave a young company called Bois Rouge a forestry permit covering 186,596 hectares in the south-western Lobaye region - roughly 1,866 km² of tropical forest, an area larger than Greater London.