{"id":9504,"date":"2023-12-28T15:43:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=9504"},"modified":"2023-12-28T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T15:43:41","slug":"russian-embassy-reopens-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/russian-embassy-reopens-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Embassy Reopens in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has reopened its embassy in Burkina Faso after a gap of nearly 32 years after the West African nation fell out with former colonial ruler France.<br \/>\nThe Burkinabe Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that &#8220;Russia formally reopened its embassy this Thursday in Ouagadougou.&#8221;<br \/>\nRussia&#8217;s Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Alexei Saltykov, said he would head the mission in Burkina Faso until the new ambassador is named and described Burkina Faso as &#8220;an old partner with whom we have solid and friendly ties.<br \/>\n&#8220;Despite our physical absence here, bilateral cooperation in the political and economic fields have never ceased,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nBurkina Faso suffered two military coups last year \u2014 both triggered in part by discontent at failures to stem a raging insurgency.<br \/>\nSince coming to power in September 2022, the ruling junta has distanced itself from France and moved closer to Russia.<br \/>\nMoscow has pledged to deliver free grain to the African country, which is one of the world&#8217;s poorest.<br \/>\nRussia has in recent months discussed greater military cooperation with Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Russia has reopened its embassy in Burkina Faso after a gap of nearly 32 years after the West African nation fell out with former colonial ruler France. The Burkinabe Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that &#8220;Russia formally reopened its embassy this Thursday in Ouagadougou.&#8221; Russia&#8217;s Ambassador to Ivory Coast, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9506,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions\/9506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}