{"id":217273,"date":"2025-12-19T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-sounds-alarm-over-recruiters-luring-kenyans-into-russian-war-effort\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:40:05","slug":"kenya-nairobi-sounds-alarm-over-recruiters-luring-kenyans-into-russian-war-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-sounds-alarm-over-recruiters-luring-kenyans-into-russian-war-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nairobi Sounds Alarm Over Recruiters Luring Kenyans Into Russian War Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em> Kenya has pledged to crack down on overseas recruitment networks after hundreds of its citizens were lured to Russia with promises of work, only to be sent to military camps and, in some cases, the front line in Ukraine. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The government announced this week that 18 Kenyans who had been sent to fight on the Ukrainian front had been repatriated from Russia as part of a diplomatic push to assist Kenyans who have found themselves trapped in Russian military camps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">More than 200 Kenyans may have joined&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190146.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>Kenya has pledged to crack down on overseas recruitment networks after hundreds of its citizens were lured to Russia with promises of work, only to be sent to military camps and, in some cases, the front line in Ukraine. The government announced this week that 18 Kenyans who had been sent to fight on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":217274,"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":[258,256,9582,9921,4688,430,9058,22918,259,257,35435,10143,15919,254,6618],"class_list":["post-217273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-effort","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-luring","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-recruiters","tag-russian","tag-sounds","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"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\/217273","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=217273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}