{"id":20228,"date":"2023-01-19T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:21:51","slug":"russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR:We are not training eSwatini State security officers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Alexander Surikov, the Russian Ambassador to eSwatini has denied allegations suggesting that some of King Mswati\u2019s security officers were trained in his home country.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This comes after press exposed Senior Superintendent Sikhumbuzo Dictor Gwebu,one of Mswati\u2019s powerful and influential Secret State Intelligence Officer who is alleged to be part of a hit squad killing political activists.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a press conference at the Hilton Hotel, Mbabane on Tuesday, the Ambassador said they only shared expertise with security officers including the army.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not training soldiers from Eswatini,we are only giving scholarships for higher military education,\u201dsaid the Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>But Senior Superintendent Sikhumbuzo Dictor Gwebu when reached for comments by this publication earlier confirmed that he was trained in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true that I did go to Russia, but it was about criminal investigations,\u201dsaid the senior cop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Alexander Surikov, the Russian Ambassador to eSwatini has denied allegations suggesting that some of King Mswati\u2019s security officers were trained in his home country. This comes after press exposed Senior Superintendent Sikhumbuzo Dictor Gwebu,one of Mswati\u2019s powerful and influential Secret State Intelligence Officer who is alleged to be part of a hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-20228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR:We are not training eSwatini State security officers. - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alexander Surikov, the Russian Ambassador to eSwatini has denied allegations suggesting that some of King Mswati\u2019s se ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR:We are not training eSwatini State security officers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alexander Surikov, the Russian Ambassador to eSwatini has denied allegations suggesting that some of King Mswati\u2019s se ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-19T12:15:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-19T14:21:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674118572.53.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR:We are not training eSwatini State security officers.\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-19T12:15:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-19T14:21:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674118572.53.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/russian-ambassadorwe-are-not-training-eswatini-state-security-officers\",\"name\":\"RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR:We are not training eSwatini State security officers. - 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