{"id":185000,"date":"2024-11-21T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-malawi-zambia-speak-out-about-russias-influence-concerned-that-its-a-double-edged-sword\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:03:05","slug":"africa-malawi-zambia-speak-out-about-russias-influence-concerned-that-its-a-double-edged-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-malawi-zambia-speak-out-about-russias-influence-concerned-that-its-a-double-edged-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Malawi, Zambia Speak Out About Russia&#8217;s Influence, Concerned That It&#8217;s &#8216;A Double-Edged Sword&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Malawi and Zambia, just like other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) countries, have spoken out about the relationship with Russia amid rising concerns that it is &#8216;a double-edged sword&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This comes against the background of the global landscape shift, where Russia is rekindling its relationship with Africa by forging a partnership, which analysts feel promises mutual benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Diplomatic and international relations experts interviewed have come out clean, saying from energy and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411200446.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi and Zambia, just like other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) countries, have spoken out about the relationship with Russia amid rising concerns that it is &#8216;a double-edged sword&#8217;. This comes against the background of the global landscape shift, where Russia is rekindling its relationship with Africa by forging a partnership, which analysts feel promises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,10495,50025,10816,5028,257,34452,254,8676,16679,4709,881],"class_list":["post-185000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerned","tag-doubleedged","tag-influence","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-russias","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speak","tag-sword","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185000","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}