DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ 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.

Persons: Russian Wagner, Nemes, Wagner, ”, Tarimo, “ Nemes, Rehema Kigobe, – Tarimo, Aboya, Claire Amuhaya, Nemes Tarimo, Rehema, “, Vladimir Putin, Chadema, Alexander Shilkin, ” Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Kristian Malundama, Malundama, Tarimo’s, Prigozhin, Lemekani, Christian, didn’t, Will, Nyirenda, Ronald Kalifungwa, Zikonde, –, …, “ I’m, Christopher Kangwa, Tionge, ” Nyirenda, ” Kangwa, Fabrice Organizations: Moscow’s Pushkin Institute, Russian Technological University, Reuters, Friendship University, Soviet Union, National Congress, European Union, United Nations General Assembly, Wagner Group, Central African Republic, Officials, Dar es Salaam, Democratic, Tanzanian, Zambian, Instagram, Research Nuclear University, Baptist, YouTube, ” Reuters, Ivorian Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Bakhmut, Dar es, Tanzania’s, Odradivka, Moscow, IT, Russia, Ukraine, Zambian, Ivory Coast, Soviet, Kenyan, Africa, United States, South Africa, Zambia, Mali, Libya, Central, Tanzania, kwa, Sochi, Tanzanian, Tarimo’s, Yaroslavl region’s, Rybinsk, Democratic Republic of Congo, Yaroslavl, Ukraine’s, Lusaka’s Northmead, China, Lemekani, Tver region’s, Tver’s, Russia’s, Mordovia, Yopougon, Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s, Cocody

CNN —The body of Lemekani Nathan Nyirenda, a fighter recruited by the mercenary group Wagner for combat operations in Ukraine, was returned to Zambia on Sunday. The body was received by Nyirenda’s family and foreign ministry officials, the ministry stated in a series of tweets Sunday. A relative of Lemekani Nyirenda, who died in the conflict in Ukraine in September, is consoled as his coffin arrives at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka on Sunday. A hearse carrying the remains of Lemekani Nathan Nyirenda at Lusaka's Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. Salim Dawood/AFP/Getty ImagesFlorence Nyirenda, Lemekani Nyirenda's mother, is comforted by family members at the airport in Lusaka, on December 11.

☆ Russia pardoned Zambian prisoner ‘to join military operation in Ukraine,’ says minister
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Sebastian Shukla | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Russia pardoned a Zambian prisoner so that they could be deployed to Ukraine, where they died fighting for the Wagner mercenary unit, Zambia’s foreign affairs minister said Friday. Zambian national Nathan Lemekhani Nyirenda was “pardoned on 23rd August, 2022 in order to join the military operation, in exchange for amnesty,” the minister, Stanley Kakubo, said in Lusaka, adding that this information was provided to him by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. However, it appears that Lavrov also gave the first indication that the Russian government is sanctioning the recruitment of prisoners from Russian prisons for the war in Ukraine. During the summer, the financier of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, toured Russia’s prisons searching for prisoners to join the war in Ukraine. He was caught on video at multiple Russian prisons giving speeches to potential recruits.

☆ Russian university officials pressured African students to join the war, threatening them with axed scholarships and tuition hikes: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

African students in Russia told The Daily Beast that they were pressured to fight in Ukraine. Students said they were told they could lose their scholarships or see fee hikes, per the Beast. This pressure included warnings that the government could cancel their scholarships and raise tuition fees, the students told the outlet. Students have also been approached by police and the military, a second Nigerian student told the Beast. Even so, students with financial difficulties are considering the offer to sign up, the students told the Beast.

☆ Zambia seeks answers after student imprisoned in Russia dies in Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

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.

☆ A Zambian student sent to prison in Russia wound up dead in Ukraine, suggesting Russia is conscripting prisoners from other nations to fight
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Zambian student serving a prison sentence in Russia wound up dead after fighting in the war in Ukraine. The Zambian government said they don't know how a foreign prisoner ended up fighting in Russia's military. He was being held at Tyler Medium Security Prison on the outskirts of Moscow, the statement said. On November 9, the Zambian Foreign Ministry was made aware that Nyirenda died "at the battlefront of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine." According to the statement, Nyirenda died on September 22 and his remains have since been taken to a Russian border town to be transported back to Zambia.

CNN —A Zambian student, jailed in Russia was killed during a battle in Ukraine, Zambia’s foreign ministry said Monday. The student was a 23-year-old student the Zambian government had sponsored to study nuclear engineering at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Nyirenda was convicted in 2020 of unspecified crimes in Russia and sent to prison for nine years and six months. CNN has contacted the Zambian foreign ministry for more information. However many foreign students reported facing segregation and racism at borders.

Search resuls for: "Nyirenda"

7 mentions found