Analysis - Wagner - renamed Africa Corps - heavy losses in Mali, July 2024, were widely publicized. But not those of new mercenaries of Syrian origin deployed in the Sahel by Turkey in Niger.
"As Rhyker was trying to put on shorts to go to the hospital for medical attention, he lost his balance and fell into an officer," according to attorney Stephen Wagner of Carmel, Indiana.
Russia's Wagner mercenary group said that its fighters had recovered the bodies of its mercenaries killed in a July battle with Tuareg rebels and Islamists during a desert sandstorm in Mali.