{"id":35976,"date":"2025-07-29T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=35976"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:46:40","slug":"russia-is-expanding-its-energy-expansion-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-is-expanding-its-energy-expansion-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is expanding its energy expansion in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>kremlin continues its attempts to expand influence in Africa \u2014 most recently through a memorandum of cooperation between rosatom and Niger\u2019s Ministry of Energy on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, along with announced plans to build power plants and distribution systems in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f russia uses energy projects as tools of geopolitical expansion, seeking to bypass Western sanctions and gain support from regional elites. Such memoranda offer kremlin political leverage, access to resources (including uranium), and mechanisms to bind partners to russian technical and expert infrastructure. Behind the mask of \u201cpeaceful atom,\u201d russia embeds control systems that may threaten regional energy security.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other countries are increasingly cautious about energy cooperation with russia due to sanctions-related risks. Even moscow itself faces growing challenges \u2014 for example, the Akkuyu NPP project in Turkey is under pressure: the contractor faces $58 million in debt and asset seizure, while workers protest over unpaid wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kremlin continues its attempts to expand influence in Africa \u2014 most recently through a memorandum of cooperation between rosatom and Niger\u2019s Ministry of Energy on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, along with announced plans to build power plants and distribution systems in the country. \u25ab\ufe0f russia uses energy projects as tools of geopolitical expansion,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35977,"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-35976","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\/35976","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=35976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}