{"id":11975,"date":"2026-01-08T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11975\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:21:09","slug":"south-africa-hosts-brics-naval-drill-risks-renewed-us-ire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11975\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Hosts BRICS Naval Drill, Risks Renewed US Ire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Warships from some members of the BRICS group of developing nations gathered in Cape Town waters for a naval exercise that places host South Africa at risk of renewed US ire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China will lead the Will for Peace 2026 drill, which runs from Jan. 9 to Jan. 16 and will showcase the participants\u2019 collective commitment to safeguard maritime trade routes \u201cand deepen cooperation in support of peaceful maritime security,\u201d the South African National Defence Force said in a statement. It didn\u2019t specify which other countries will be participating, with a media conference scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warships from some members of the BRICS group of developing nations gathered in Cape Town waters for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63,593,2065,235,8205,176,8204,261,584,2433,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-11975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-brics","10":"tag-cape-town","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-donald-john-trump","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-logistics","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}