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  "site": "https://www.nytimes.com",
  "tags": [
    "Africa",
    "Russia",
    "Ukraine",
    "South Africa",
    "Ghana",
    "Nairobi (Kenya)",
    "Kenya",
    "Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022)",
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  "textContent": "A growing number of men across the continent say they are being promised jobs in Russia, only to be forced into the war. Some go as mercenaries, but many more are drawn unwittingly.",
  "title": "How the Kremlin Lures Africans Into Russia’s War in Ukraine"
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