{"id":21825,"date":"2024-10-10T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=21825"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:53:47","slug":"why-russian-defense-minister-met-with-representatives-of-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/why-russian-defense-minister-met-with-representatives-of-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Why russian defense minister met with representatives of Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian defense minister andrey belousov held talks in moscow with Burkina Faso\u2019s Prime Minister Apollinaire Ky\u00e9lem, highlighting the &#8220;positive dynamics&#8221; in relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Each member of the newly formed the Alliance of Sahel States\u2014Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger &#8211; has employed the wagner group, a russian private military company, to protect local elites.<\/p>\n<p>Amid growing armed conflicts in the Sahel region, local leaders are seeking russian support to protect their regimes, as russia is the second-largest arms supplier to Africa. In turn, russia is looking to expand its influence in the region and counter the effects of international sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian defense minister andrey belousov held talks in moscow with Burkina Faso\u2019s Prime Minister Apollinaire Ky\u00e9lem, highlighting the &#8220;positive dynamics&#8221; in relations between the two countries. \u25ab\ufe0f Each member of the newly formed the Alliance of Sahel States\u2014Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger &#8211; has employed the wagner group, a russian private military company, to protect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":538,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-results"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}