{"id":193579,"date":"2025-03-15T06:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-kagame-accuses-international-community-of-weaponizing-aid-to-control-nations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T06:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:51:06","slug":"africa-kagame-accuses-international-community-of-weaponizing-aid-to-control-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-kagame-accuses-international-community-of-weaponizing-aid-to-control-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Kagame Accuses International Community of &#8216;Weaponizing&#8217; Aid to Control Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused the international community of using aid as a tool of control over developing nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In an interview with Mario Nawfal, a media personality on X, Kagame asserted that foreign assistance is often weaponized to influence the policies and decisions of recipient countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking on the issue, Kagame acknowledged that while aid has been essential in Rwanda&#8217;s recovery and development, it has also been used to foster dependency and exert&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140407.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused the international community of using aid as a tool of control over developing nations. In an interview with Mario Nawfal, a media personality on X, Kagame asserted that foreign assistance is often weaponized to influence the policies and decisions of recipient countries. Speaking on the issue, Kagame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[5070,258,256,7828,7963,6877,4337,7722,430,4301,257,254,50868],"class_list":["post-193579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-community","tag-control","tag-international","tag-kagame","tag-kenya-news","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weaponizing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193579","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}