{"id":184144,"date":"2024-11-08T01:17:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/africa-uk-sanctions-russia-backed-wagner-group-successor-africa-corps\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T01:17:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:17:43","slug":"africa-uk-sanctions-russia-backed-wagner-group-successor-africa-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/africa-uk-sanctions-russia-backed-wagner-group-successor-africa-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: UK Sanctions Russia-Backed Wagner Group Successor Africa Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">London \u2014 <em>The UK government announced sanctions on Thursday against three private mercenary groups operating in Africa with links to the Kremlin, including Wagner group successor Africa Corps. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;These sanctions will bear down on Russian malign activity in Libya, Mali and the CAR (Central African Republic), exposing and combatting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>&#8216;s illicit activity in Africa,&#8221; a government statement said, announcing its latest package of measures against Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The UK government said the measures were the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411070429.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London \u2014 The UK government announced sanctions on Thursday against three private mercenary groups operating in Africa with links to the Kremlin, including Wagner group successor Africa Corps. &#8220;These sanctions will bear down on Russian malign activity in Libya, Mali and the CAR (Central African Republic), exposing and combatting Russia&#8216;s illicit activity in Africa,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":184145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631749:18244eabb35a532aeb789ff0d5b4ffb9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,13450,5192,892,257,49923,4650,254,13425,42472],"class_list":["post-184144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corps","tag-group","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-russiabacked","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-successor","tag-wagner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631749:18244eabb35a532aeb789ff0d5b4ffb9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}