{"id":87557,"date":"2026-04-08T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87557"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:19:44","slug":"more-than-1400-africans-have-been-recruited-by-russia-between-january-2023-and-september-2025-to-fight-in-its-war-against-ukraine-with-16-cameroonian-deaths-acknowledged-this-week-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/more-than-1400-africans-have-been-recruited-by-russia-between-january-2023-and-september-2025-to-fight-in-its-war-against-ukraine-with-16-cameroonian-deaths-acknowledged-this-week-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,400 Africans have been recruited by Russia between January 2023 and September 2025 to fight in its war against Ukraine, with 16 Cameroonian deaths acknowledged this week alone."},"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\/AA20psGf.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=250&amp;y=137&amp;s=118&amp;d=118\" alt=\"RUSSIA-PUTIN-GOVERNMENT\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,400\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Africans<\/a>\u00a0have been recruited by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2191491\/russia-nuclear-war-ukraine-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Russia<\/a> between January 2023 and September 2025 to fight in its war against Ukraine, with 16 Cameroonian deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/huge-blow-for-shameless-putin-after-russia-lures-war-recruits-from-36-african-countries\/ar-AA20pMyC?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d629f398a84c3eb64725b9e9ad48ab&amp;ei=26\">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>More than 1,400\u00a0Africans\u00a0have been recruited by\u00a0Russia between January 2023 and September 2025 to fight in its war against Ukraine, with 16 Cameroonian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87557","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\/2025\/12\/Africans-fighting-in-Russia.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557","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=87557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87558,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557\/revisions\/87558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}