{"id":27957,"date":"2022-09-10T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/09\/10\/central-african-republic-under-russian-influence\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T13:00:26","slug":"central-african-republic-under-russian-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/09\/10\/central-african-republic-under-russian-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic: Under Russian influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Since 2018, mercenaries from Russia&rsquo;s Wagner Group, an effective secret army of the Kremlin, have been active in Central African Republic. They protect the impoverished country&rsquo;s regime in exchange for valuable mineral resources and deploy a massive propaganda campaign to cover up the massacres, rapes and torture they are accused of. Taking advantage of France&rsquo;s loss of influence in its former colony, Russia is seen to be using Central African Republic \u2013 a country ripped apart by decades of civil war \u2013 as a testing ground in a new battle for global influence. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Carol Valade and Cl\u00e9ment Di Roma report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2018, mercenaries from Russia&rsquo;s Wagner Group, an effective secret army of the Kremlin, have been active in Central African Republic. They protect the impoverished country&rsquo;s regime in exchange for valuable mineral resources and deploy a massive propaganda campaign to cover up the massacres, rapes and torture they are accused of. Taking advantage of France&rsquo;s [&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":[4,3],"class_list":["post-27957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}