{"id":41558,"date":"2026-01-20T15:02:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/01\/20\/china-russia-conclude-brics-naval-drills-in-south-africa-amid-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:02:58","slug":"china-russia-conclude-brics-naval-drills-in-south-africa-amid-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/01\/20\/china-russia-conclude-brics-naval-drills-in-south-africa-amid-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Russia conclude BRICS+ naval drills in South Africa amid controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>China and Russia concluded a week of joint naval exercises in South African waters on Friday, described by the host country as a BRICS Plus operation aimed at \u201censuring the safety of shipping and maritime economic activities.\u201d The drills stirred controversy as they coincided with deadly protests in Iran, which had originally planned to participate but withdrew following diplomatic discussions. FRANCE 24\u2019s Eunice Masson noted that the exercises also sparked debate over the absence of key BRICS nations such as India and Brazil.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and Russia concluded a week of joint naval exercises in South African waters on Friday, described by the host country as a BRICS Plus operation aimed at \u201censuring the safety of shipping and maritime economic activities.\u201d The drills stirred controversy as they coincided with deadly protests in Iran, which had originally planned to participate &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-41558","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\/41558"}],"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=41558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}