‘We now face guns’: Small-scale miners fear Wagner’s advances in CAR
Local miners in the Central African Republic face eviction and violence as the Russian group takes over gold and diamond mines.
When Sadock arrived in the northwestern Central African Republic (CAR) town of Koki in November 2022, he thought he had finally found a safe place to live and work.
For years, small-scale miners like him have been displaced and forced to relocate over and over again whenever foreigners entered a local area, seized surrounding gold mines and evicted local miners.