{"id":25854,"date":"2025-01-14T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=25854"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:25:08","slug":"why-russia-helps-african-countries-fight-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/why-russia-helps-african-countries-fight-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Russia helps African countries \u201cfight sanctions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian propagandists held a lecture in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, focused on the fight against sanctions. During the meeting, sanctions imposed on several African countries over human rights violations and corruption were characterized as \u201ca form of Western neocolonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russians paid special attention to \u201canti-colonial strategies of resistance,\u201d including \u201cdiversifying partners,\u201d meaning growing closer ties with Moscow. Similar rhetoric is being echoed by some African politicians. Representatives from countries with a Russian military presence have repeatedly claimed that international sanctions only help strengthen their relationship with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>By using anti-Western and anti-colonial rhetoric, Russia is building alliances with sanctioned African nations. In doing so, Moscow aims to expand its influence on the continent while securing control over local natural resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian propagandists held a lecture in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, focused on the fight against sanctions. During the meeting, sanctions imposed on several African countries over human rights violations and corruption were characterized as \u201ca form of Western neocolonialism.\u201d The Russians paid special attention to \u201canti-colonial strategies of resistance,\u201d including \u201cdiversifying partners,\u201d meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25855,"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":933,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25854","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=25854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}