Philip Obaji Jr.

Philip Obaji Jr. is a Nigeria-based correspondent for The Daily Beast, covering sub-Saharan Africa. He won the Future Awards Africa Prize in Education in 2014, and the Future Awards Africa Prize for Young Person of the Year in 2015. Follow him on twitter @PhilipObaji

Putin and CAR map
‘NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE’

Why Putin’s Private Army Ordered Soldiers to Torture Me

Philip Obaji Jr.

At 17, Fatou was drugged and raped by Russian paramilitaries at a military base in Bouar, Central African Republic.
SICK AND TWISTED

Twins, 17: We Were Drugged and Raped by Putin’s Private Army

Philip Obaji Jr.

A photograph of miners in the Ndassima gold mine in 2014 in CAR where independent gold panners once ran the mine. Today, the Russians control some of the biggest mines in the central part of the CAR, including the Ndassima gold mine.
BLOOD AND TREASURE

Putin’s Private Army Accused of Sickening New Massacre

Philip Obaji Jr.

A photo illustration featuring Yevgeny Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin with the silhouette of soldiers on the foreground
CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Kremlin Wants to Purge Wagner’s Prigozhin Loyalists

Philip Obaji Jr.

Russia's mercenary Wagner group is tied to the government of the Central African Republic, and their relationship is uncertain after Yevgeny Prighozin’s attempted coup on Vladimir Putin.
‘MESSY’

African Officials Panic Following Prigozhin’s Mutiny

Philip Obaji Jr.