{"id":30940,"date":"2025-04-23T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=30940"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:53:05","slug":"russia-is-increasing-its-influence-in-africa-under-the-guise-of-fighting-epidemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-is-increasing-its-influence-in-africa-under-the-guise-of-fighting-epidemics\/","title":{"rendered":"russia is increasing its influence in Africa under the guise of fighting epidemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda is actively promoting putin\u2019s claims about russia\u2019s supposed major successes in helping African countries combat epidemic diseases. In reality, however, this cooperation is just one aspect of the kremlin\u2019s multi-dimensional strategy to increase the continent\u2019s dependence on russia.<\/p>\n<p>While developing medical partnerships, russia simultaneously conducts disinformation campaigns in Africa targeting Western humanitarian missions, accusing them of spreading diseases and exploiting post-colonial traumas. Since 2022, russia has sponsored around 80 such campaigns across 22 countries. The refusal of African nations to cooperate with the West often leads to a general deterioration in public health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to humanitarian cooperation, russia is also trying to expand its collaboration in other sectors and is increasing its military presence on the continent. All of this is done solely to gain access to Africa\u2019s resources and to strengthen russia\u2019s military and political influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda is actively promoting putin\u2019s claims about russia\u2019s supposed major successes in helping African countries combat epidemic diseases. In reality, however, this cooperation is just one aspect of the kremlin\u2019s multi-dimensional strategy to increase the continent\u2019s dependence on russia. While developing medical partnerships, russia simultaneously conducts disinformation campaigns in Africa targeting Western humanitarian missions,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30941,"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-30940","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\/30940","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=30940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}