SUMMARY

AAKG (Azande Ani Kpi Gbe) was an Azande ethnic self-defence militia in Haut-Mbomou prefecture, in the southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), near the borders with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its name means roughly "too many Azande people have died" in the Zande language. It was formed in early 2023, announced in a March 2023 communiqué, after years of attacks on the majority Azande community by the UPC, a predominantly Fulani ex-Séléka group that had seized the prefecture's main towns.

AAKG was active in 2023 with its fighting recorded against UPC, which was then part of the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC). The group had been raised and trained in 2024 with Russian (Wagner/Africa Corps) and government backing to fight UPC, with part of its force integrated into the national army through a unit branded Wagner Ti Azandé, "the Wagner of the Zandé", which helped retake Zemio, Mboki, and other towns. It broke with the government in 2025 after Russian forces attempted to disarm it. Government forces and their Russian allies subsequently clashed repeatedly with AAKG.

AAKG advanced neither a territorial claim nor a claim on government, as its grievances centered on the treatment of the Azande community and on the Russian presence. As a result, this fighting was not coded as a state-based incompatibility and does not appear in the UCDP GED. AAKG was, however, recorded as a perpetrator of one-sided violence. Human rights monitors accused the militia and its Wagner-backed wing of further grave abuses, including summary executions, rapes, torture, and the forced recruitment of children, mostly against Fulani and other Muslim civilians and against Sudanese refugees.

On election day, 28 December 2025, AAKG launched an offensive on Bambouti, took local officials hostage, and prevented voting there. The group was not part of the 2025 N'Djamena peace process that dissolved UPC and 3R.