{"id":8350,"date":"2026-03-22T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:47:19","slug":"ukraine-alleges-russia-enlists-more-than-1700-africans-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/22\/ukraine-alleges-russia-enlists-more-than-1700-africans-to-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine alleges Russia enlists more than 1,700 Africans to fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ukraine has accused Russia of using fraudulent schemes and &#8220;dark web&#8221; deception to recruit over 1,780 African citizens from 36 different countries to fight on the front lines. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and his Ghanaian counterpart, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, stated that these recruits often have no military background and were lured by false promises of employment. While Russia denies illegal recruitment, reports from countries like South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe suggest a growing trend of citizens being lured into the conflict. In response, Ghana plans to use its upcoming African Union presidency to raise awareness of these trafficking networks, while South Africa has already secured the repatriation of several nationals. President Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine is working closely with African partners to counter these recruitment tactics as the war enters its fifth year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: February 25, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/2\/25\/ukraine-claims-russia-enlisting-over-1700-african-mercenaries\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has accused Russia of using fraudulent schemes and &#8220;dark web&#8221; deception to recruit over 1,780 African citizens from 36 different countries to fight on the front lines. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and his Ghanaian counterpart, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, stated that these recruits often have no military background and were lured by false promises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8451,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions\/8451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}