It stressed that the two heads of state and government enjoyed cordial relations, but revealed that Mauritania also had relations with Hamas. ☞ Mauritania’s stance comes as spokesman for the former Wagner Group in Africa Alexander Ivanov presented Mauritania as the hub for Ukrainian weapons and special forces in Africa to the Tass agency in August. The transfer of Ukrainian weapons has already been noticed in Burkina Faso, Somalia and Libya. The Wall Street Journal also noted the presence of Ukrainian Special Forces alongside General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan in Sudan, while others mentioned them with the Allied Democratic Forces in Uganda. Algerian security services, meanwhile, denounced another network, that of Muslim Brother Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, head of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU), as having played a role in the transfer of Ukrainian weapons to Algerian jihadists.