Central African Republic says Wagner troop movement is rotation not departure

The departure of hundreds of Russian Wagner troops from Central African Republic is part of a rotation of forces rather a withdrawal, a spokesperson for the
CAR presidency said on Saturday.
The short-lived mutiny led by Wagner mercenary founder Yevgeny Prigozhin in Russia in June has raised questions about the outlook for his group’s sprawling network of military and commercial operations across CAR and other parts of Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere.
Reports of the recent departure of large numbers of Wagner personnel from CAR by plane have fuelled speculation in recent days that the group is pulling out of the country, where they have been helping the government to quell several rebel insurgencies since 2018.