CJ Exclusive: The “Sahel Blackout” and the Uranium-CAR Axis.
Exclusive – London, UK – January ,4, 2026
While the international community monitors the formal transition of Russian mercenary forces into the state-controlled “Africa Corps,” the Castle Journal Exclusive Department has uncovered a far more shadow-heavy maneuver.
Intelligence suggests that a “ghost faction” of Wagner veterans has not integrated into the Ministry of Defense, but has instead vanished into the dense rainforests of the Central African Republic (CAR) to secure a strategic uranium processing node that remains off the books of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The Vanishing Act
In the last 72 hours, tracking data for known paramilitary hubs in Mali and Burkina Faso has gone dark.
CJ Global has confirmed through satellite thermal imaging that several “Africa Corps” outposts were abandoned overnight.
However, our ground sources in Bangui report a sudden influx of “unmarked” Russian-speaking personnel arriving via private cargo flights.
These are not the standard rotational troops. Our intelligence indicates these are elite “S-Group” sabotage and security specialists.
Their destination is not the capital, but the remote eastern provinces near Bakouma, an area known for massive, untapped uranium deposits.
The “Sahel Blackout” was a diversion to allow this elite group to establish a “Total Security Zone” around a clandestine processing facility allegedly funded by a third-party Middle Eastern power.
The Caracas Connection: Jungle Warfare Experts
The timing of this movement coincides perfectly with the U.S. strike in Venezuela. CJ Exclusive has obtained flight manifests showing that a Russian Il-76, operated by the sanctioned Aviacon Zitotrans—a company with deep Wagner ties—departed from Africa and landed in Caracas just days before the U.S. intervention.
This aircraft reportedly carried nearly 120 “advisors” specializing in jungle insurgency. Our theory, supported by high-level intercepts, is that these veterans were deployed to organize a “stay-behind” network in the Venezuelan Amazon.
While Maduro is in U.S. custody, the Kremlin is ensuring that the ground remains fertile for a long-term, Wagner-style insurgency that will make any U.S.-led “reconstruction” of Venezuela’s oil and mineral sectors extremely costly and violent.
The “Nuclear Grey Zone”
The most alarming aspect of this report involves the “Uranium-CAR Axis.”
By securing autonomous control over CAR’s uranium, the remaining Wagner leadership is creating a “Nuclear Grey Zone.”
They are essentially transforming from a mercenary group into a sovereign resource-broker that can provide nuclear raw materials to pariah states without the oversight of the Russian state or Western regulators.
As the Africa Corps takes over the public-facing duties of “state-sponsored security” in the Sahel, this secretive faction is entrenching itself in the most valuable and dangerous resource markets on the planet.
The world thinks Wagner is dead; CJ Global knows they have simply evolved into something much more difficult to track.
Headlines from the Shadow War:
• Strategic Relocation: Elite Wagner “S-Group” veterans vanish from Sahel outposts.
• Uranium Shield: Clandestine processing facility identified in the Bakouma region, CAR.
• Venezuelan Stay-Behind: 120 Russian jungle warfare experts embedded in the Amazon before the raid.
• The New Broker: Wagner remnants move toward independent nuclear resource trafficking.
