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Mining May 5, 2022

Africa’s role in the ongoing global energy transition

The strategic shifts in global energy markets are visible: on the one hand, net energy importers are forced to diversify sources of fossil fuels in order to maintain the stability of supplies; on the other hand, they are moving at an accelerated pace towards the…
SDG 6 February 18, 2021

RUSNANO to Build Desalination Plants in Egypt

In the end of January Egypt partnered with Russian state-owned company RUSNANO to build a plant to manufacture equipment for seawater desalination plants, Egyptian paper Al-Watan reports. A cooperation agreement has been signed between RUSNANO, the Arab Organisation for Industrialisation (AOI), the Engineering Authority of…
December 20, 2020

Construction of Centre of Nuclear Science and Technology in Zambia

In May 2018, the State Specialized Design Institute, which only shareholder is Rosatom Overseas, and the Government of Zambia signed a contract for the construction of the Centre for Nuclear Science and Technologies. The project involves the construction of 10-megawatt nuclear installation, laboratory facilities, irradiation…
Rosatom November 26, 2020

Ryan Collyer: What is Rosatom Set to Do in Africa?

Interview with Ryan Collyer, Acting CEO, Rosatom Africa. The use of isotopes for industry, medicine and agriculture is stated among…