{"id":88360,"date":"2026-04-28T07:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88360"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:11:25","slug":"malis-militant-attacks-expose-limits-of-putins-power-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/malis-militant-attacks-expose-limits-of-putins-power-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali\u2019s militant attacks expose limits of Putin\u2019s power in Africa"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21P8ls.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin meets Assimi Go\u00efta in St Petersburg in 2023. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel\/TASS Host Photo Agency\/AFP\/Getty Images\" width=\"496\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Assimi Go\u00efta, the leader of Mali\u2019s military junta, sat down with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in the Kremlin last summer.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/mali-s-militant-attacks-expose-limits-of-putin-s-power-in-africa\/ar-AA21Pgpq?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69f05b1438e8455187b4317b9aa212e4&amp;ei=69\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>When Assimi Go\u00efta, the leader of Mali\u2019s military junta, sat down with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in the Kremlin last summer.\u00a0Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88360","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\/Putin-in-his-office.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88360","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=88360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88361,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88360\/revisions\/88361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}