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The Africans fighting on Russia’s front line in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +18 min
In journeying to Russia, Tarimo was following the route of many young Africans, including future heads of state, since the 1960s. Tarimo also ended up treading the path of a handful of other Africans who took up arms for Wagner in Ukraine. The presidents of South Africa and Zambia are now among a group of African leaders seeking to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. In November last year, his family learned he too had died in Ukraine fighting for Wagner. He said that, like Tarimo, Nyirenda cast his desire to join Wagner as repayment for Soviet and Russian support of African anti-colonial movements.
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Zambia has asked Russia to explain how one of its citizens who had been serving a prison sentence in Moscow ended up on the battlefield in Ukraine, where he was killed, Zambia’s foreign affairs minister said on Monday. Stanley Kakubo said in a statement that Russia had notified Zambia about the death in September of Lemekhani Nyirenda, but did not provide details. Russia’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the circumstances of his journey to Ukraine and subsequent death. His remains have been transported to the Russian border town of Rostov in readiness for repatriation to Zambia, Kakubo added. “We just received a message from a man we do not know in Russia who told us that there was a will, which our son left and we should travel to Russia,” Nyirenda said.
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