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Rh {| class="wikitable" ! Year of first involvement !! Country !! Nature of involvement !! Further information The network has mainly taken a non-combat role, providing a support force for the Bashir regime and guarding its business interests. The network offered military training to intelligence and special forces and to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The network maintained closes ties to Sudan’s military after the fall of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Despite the network’s denials, it appears to remain active in Sudan, supporting rebel paramilitaries (the RSF) in the ongoing conflict which broke out on 15 April 2023. Wagner’s gold-smuggling operations from Sudan are significant, with one calling them “critical to Russia’s ability to withstand the significant sanctions deployed against it for its illegal invasion in Ukraine”.
 * 2017
 * Sudan
 * Sustained involvment
 * Sustained involvment
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