{"id":45932,"date":"2026-02-02T04:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/burkina-faso-mali-and-niger-have-turned-to-russia-now-the-us-wants-to-engage\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:28:44","slug":"burkina-faso-mali-and-niger-have-turned-to-russia-now-the-us-wants-to-engage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/burkina-faso-mali-and-niger-have-turned-to-russia-now-the-us-wants-to-engage\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have turned to Russia. Now the US wants to engage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Unlike the West African regional bloc Ecowas, France, the EU and the Biden administration, today&#8217;s White House does not regard the Russian military presence as a threat to regional stability or human rights. Russia has deployed about 1,000 security contractors in Mali, with smaller contingents of mercenaries or regular troops in Burkina Faso and Niger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckglwnrx437o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the West African regional bloc Ecowas, France, the EU and the Biden administration, today&#8217;s White House does not regard the Russian military presence as a threat to regional stability or human rights. Russia has deployed about 1,000 security contractors in Mali, with smaller contingents of mercenaries or regular troops in Burkina Faso and Niger. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45934,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45932\/revisions\/45934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}