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Nairobi \u2014 The family of a 32-year-old Kenyan man who died while fighting for Russian forces held a mock burial on Thursday after efforts to repatriate his body failed.<\/em><\/p>\n The man, identified as Charles Wangari from Mukurweini, was allegedly lured to Russia with promises of a civilian job as a driver, according to advocacy group VOCAL Africa.<\/p>\n Instead, he was reportedly coerced into joining the Russian military and deployed to the frontlines of the Russia-Ukraine war, where he was killed by…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The family of a 32-year-old Kenyan man who died while fighting for Russian forces held a mock burial on Thursday after efforts to repatriate his body failed. The man, identified as Charles Wangari from Mukurweini, was allegedly lured to Russia with promises of a civilian job as a driver, according to advocacy group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223182,"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":[258,256,10033,5203,4377,5097,6275,4688,430,4327,44542,257,10143,10619,254,16551,6618],"class_list":["post-223181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burial","tag-family","tag-fighting","tag-forces","tag-holds","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-killed","tag-mock","tag-news","tag-russian","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ukraine","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\/223181","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=223181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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