Episode

EP 117: African Fighters in Russia-Ukraine War- Jan-Ole Voss

Podcast: Conflict & Development in Africa Podcast
Published: Mar 3, 2026
Duration seconds: 2787
Processing state: not_requested
Canonical source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mikelon/episodes/EP-117-African-Fighters-in-Russia-Ukraine-War--Jan-Ole-Voss-e3ft8ms
Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/ed219c54/podcast/play/116351132/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-3%2F7e355928-5ca4-5749-bb7e-8fb91b5ddcf8.mp3
JSON: /v1/public/podcasts/conflict-development-in-africa-podcast-6690680/episodes/ep-117-african-fighters-in-russia-ukraine-war-jan-ole-voss
Markdown: /podcast/conflict-development-in-africa-podcast-6690680/ep-117-african-fighters-in-russia-ukraine-war-jan-ole-voss.md

Actions

POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conflict-development-in-africa-podcast-6690680/episodes/ep-117-african-fighters-in-russia-ukraine-war-jan-ole-voss/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/conflict-development-in-africa-podcast-6690680/ep-117-african-fighters-in-russia-ukraine-war-jan-ole-voss.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

In this week’s episode, Jan-Ole Voss, Deputy Head of the Kenyan Office and Project Manager at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation in Nairobi, joins me to discuss African fighters fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war. We discuss the “deceptive” and “illegal” recruitment of African fighters and the implications for Russia-Africa relations and other related issues.