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Closing the Information Gap: the HSE Center for African Studies publishes a new Handbook on e-Governance

On December 21, during the Winter Knowledge Sharing Week, the HSE Center for African Studies presented the handbook E-Governance in Africa 2024: Opportunities and Challenges which examines the actual state and process of digitising public administration in African countries. The handbook also explains the capabilities…

Moscow Holds the Winter E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Week

On December 18-22, the HSE University held the Winter Knowledge Sharing Week for sharing experience in digitalisation of public administration for senior officials from African countries. The first of its kind event was organised under the E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program for Africa initiated in 2023…

Global South Combats Deforestation: Congo-Brazzaville Takes the Lead

The countries of the world’s largest tropical forest basins—the Congo, the Amazon, and the Borneo-Mekong—met in Congo’s capital Brazzaville on October 26-28 with an ambitious goal in mind. The idea, first proposed by President Denis Sassou Nguesso, envisions a global coalition of countries home to…

Tensions Rise in Chad’s Gold-Rich Region But Implications Radiate Far Beyond It

Close to the Libyan border, Chad’s gold-rich Kouri Bougudi region has been the scene of mounting tensions, compounded by tribal rivalries and external factors. An Intersection of Ethnicities and Interests The Chadian armed forces conduct routine patrols in the area with the stated goal of…

Africa and BRICS Support Zimbabwe on Its Anti-Sanctions Day

Zimbabwe marks the country’s 5th Anti-Sanctions Day on October 25, a public holiday introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to showcase the country’s resilience to what his government persistently calls ‘illegal and unjustified sanctions’. The date was declared as such in 2019, at the 39th SADC…

GIZ: German development projects in Africa

As part of the study on international experience in the digitalisation of public services in African countries, a research fellow of the Center for African Studies of HSE University in Moscow, Russia, prepared an overview of the projects of GIZ. The German Agency for International…

Progress on Second Russia-Africa Summit

Current progress in preparations for the Second Russia-Africa Summit (2022) was presented at the third meeting of the Coordination Council for the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum by Vsevolod Tkachenko, the Director of the Department of Africa at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Oleg Ozerov, the Ambassador-at-Large and…

URAL & AFROCOM Sign Cooperation Agreement

The URAL automotive plant and AFROCOM have signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed on May 25th at the…

Marina Hamada:”In Africa, one has to get behind one’s product”

On Africa Day we remember how during the time of the USSR thousands of Soviet citizens lived and worked on the continent. By the beginning of the nineties, the majority had returned. How do those who remained live there now? In 2019, we interviewed a…

Image of Russia in African Media Spotlight

The conference “Russia-Africa: In the Media Spotlight” was held yesterday. Participants discussed the current state of the representation of Russia in African media, identified the key issues and identified solutions. Having basic Russian language skills already provides Africans an opportunity to be educated in Russia,…

Russian Exports to Sub-Saharan Africa Set Historical Record of $3.2 bln in 2020

Russian exports to Sub-Saharan Africa set a historical record of $3.2 billion in 2020 ($2.9 billion in 2019). In 2019, they represented 22% of Russia’s total export to Africa, in 2020 it achieved a 5 percentage point increase. All parts of Sub-Saharan Africa except for…

Russian Exports to Africa Decrease by 17%

Russian exports to Africa have decreased for the second year running: in 2020 they amounted to $11.8 billion, reaching the 2016 level. In 2019, they were $13.8 billion, representing a sharp decline since $17.5 billion in 2018 and stopping the overall growth trend since 2015.…