{"id":27249,"date":"2023-05-16T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/05\/16\/russias-crusade-against-neocolonialism-in-africa-fact-or-fiction\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T10:04:33","slug":"russias-crusade-against-neocolonialism-in-africa-fact-or-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/05\/16\/russias-crusade-against-neocolonialism-in-africa-fact-or-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&rsquo;s crusade against neocolonialism in Africa: Fact or fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a push evocative of the Soviet Union&rsquo;s efforts to bring Africa into its sphere of influence, the Kremlin has stepped up its presence across the African continent in recent years. From military campaigns to involvement in domestic politics, few African nations have been spared Moscow&rsquo;s interest. Russia claims it&rsquo;s fighting Western neocolonialism, but to what extent is it mirroring the methods it criticises? Samuel Ramani, author of \u00ab\u00a0Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender?\u00a0\u00bb joined us on Perspective to share his insight.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a push evocative of the Soviet Union&rsquo;s efforts to bring Africa into its sphere of influence, the Kremlin has stepped up its presence across the African continent in recent years. From military campaigns to involvement in domestic politics, few African nations have been spared Moscow&rsquo;s interest. Russia claims it&rsquo;s fighting Western neocolonialism, but to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-27249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}