{"id":85555,"date":"2026-02-25T23:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85555"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:03:39","slug":"putin-bans-recruitment-of-foreign-soldiers-to-placate-african-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/putin-bans-recruitment-of-foreign-soldiers-to-placate-african-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin bans recruitment of foreign soldiers to placate African allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1X40bC.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Evans Kibet, centre, a Kenyan citizen, eats his lunch at a detention centre for prisoners of war after being captured by Ukraine - Genya Savilov\/AFP via Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia has banned the recruitment of foreign mercenaries from dozens of countries after African nations expressed outrage that their citizens were being duped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/putin-bans-recruitment-of-foreign-soldiers-to-placate-african-allies\/ar-AA1X3VKh?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699f79a414224351af795821e62d2ff5&amp;ei=144\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Russia has banned the recruitment of foreign mercenaries from dozens of countries after African nations expressed outrage that their citizens were being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Balogun-Adisa-Ridwan.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85556,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85555\/revisions\/85556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}