{"id":1166814,"date":"2023-08-02T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=290532"},"modified":"2023-08-02T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:33:09","slug":"russia-niger-and-coup-politics-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/02\/russia-niger-and-coup-politics-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Niger, and Coup Politics in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If head counting is any indication, Russian diplomacy in Africa is slipping. A Russia-Africa summit meeting held in St. Petersburg drew only 21 African heads of state, far fewer than in 2019 when the summit attracted 45 heads of state. (By contrast, 50 attended Pres. Biden\u2019s Africa summit last December.) The reason for the low  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/02\/russia-niger-and-coup-politics-in-africa\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/02\/russia-niger-and-coup-politics-in-africa\/\">Russia, Niger, and Coup Politics in Africa<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/02\/russia-niger-and-coup-politics-in-africa\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If head counting is any indication, Russian diplomacy in Africa is slipping. A Russia-Africa summit meeting held in St. Petersburg drew only 21 African heads of state, far fewer than in 2019 when the summit attracted 45 heads of state. (By contrast, 50&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166815,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166814\/revisions\/1166815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}