At the recent African Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo stunned the audience with the allegation that “Russian mercenaries are on our northern border”. Further, he claimed, “that a mine in the southern part of Burkina has been allocated to them as a form of payment for their service” and “to have them operating on our northern border is particularly distressing for us in Ghana.” This is not yet verified, however, but if true it would seem to fit with the broader expansion of Wagner’s footprint across the African continent.