The Africa Corps, a Kremlin-controlled paramilitary force, said on Friday it will stay in Mali after Russia's Wagner mercenary group leaves following a 3-1/2 year fight against Islamist militants.

But they were well-commanded. At their head was a tough old German mercenary, the Prince of Hesse-Philippstead, a "hard-drinking, no nonsense old soldier." When summoned to surrender, the Prince ...