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Russia – Egypt Bilateral Trade Triples To Over US$7 Billion

Africa, BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and Trade and Industry Minister Anton Alikhanov met with Egypt’s Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Moscow on Monday. The meetings were to discuss the situation in Palestine, as well as trade updates and other bilateral relations. Egypt is also a member of BRICS, with the 2024 annual heads […]

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Algeria Joins BRICS New Development Bank

Africa, BRICS, Finance, Trade

October 25 Update: Algeria has now been granted ‘BRICS Partner’ status. See more here. Algeria has been granted membership in the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the bank president, Dilma Rousseff, and Algeria’s Finance Ministry have announced. The decision was made on Saturday (August 31) at the ninth annual meeting of the Board of Governors

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Russia Providing Nuclear Power Assistance To Zimbabwe

Africa, Energy, Infrastructure, Investment, Trade

Zimbabwe’s minister of primary and secondary education, Torerayi Moyo, has stated his thanks to Russia for assistance in training specialists in the Zimbabwean nuclear power and space industries. Moyo stated that Zimbabwe aims to build a nuclear power plant and develop its nuclear energy sector as part of the country’s broader industrialization goals. He said

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Moscow Hosting BRICS International Municipal Forum

Africa, BRICS, China, Energy, India, Infrastructure, Investment

Moscow is hosting the BRICS International Municipal Forum (IMBRICS) from August 27/28, an event that is bringing together city mayors and related municipal officials from 126 countries, 89 Russian regions and 500 cities to discuss and share information on municipal and urban planning. The Government of Moscow is acting as the General Partner of the IMBRICS

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South Africa To Export More Wines To Russia

Africa, BRICS, Trade

South Africa is working with partners to increase exports of wine and fruits to new markets in Russia, according to Pretoria’s embassy in Moscow. The move is part of the African nation’s efforts to expand its market reach beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg, which are its current traditional trade destinations, Cecile Theresa Heppes, an adviser

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St. Petersburg Port To Focus On Latin American & East African Trade

Africa, BRICS, Logistics & Transport, Trade

The Port of St. Petersburg is expanding export support measures and is looking to develop subsidised container shipments to Brazil, Venezuela, Tanzania and Cuba, according to Kirill Soloveitchik, the city chairman of the Committee on Industrial Policy, Innovation and Trade. It is planned that at the first stage, shipments will mainly be carried out in

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Russia’s Great African Expedition Sets Off To Explore Africa’s Continental Coastal Fisheries

Africa, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) has launched a major research initiative aimed at studying marine biology resources along the coast of 18 African countries in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. A ceremony to launch the expedition took place on Wednesday (August 22) at the marine fishing port in Kaliningrad, Russia, and was attended Russian

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Western Airlines Pull Out Of China, Leaving Huge Development Opportunities For The BRICS

Africa, BRICS, China, India, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Several Western airlines are pulling out of routes servicing China as sanctions have forced Western carriers to incur greater operational costs by avoiding Russian airspace. British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Quantas are just three who are giving up what were lucrative direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai. Other, BRICS and BRICS related airlines are now

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Rosatom Building Nuclear Power and Solar Energy Plants in Burkina Faso and Mali

Africa, Energy, Investment, Trade

Russia’s energy development strategy continues in the Sahel region of Africa, where engineers from the Rosatom, the state nuclear energy company, are on a four-day visit to Burkina Faso to discuss building a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the country. Burkina Faso, previously the French colony of Upper Volta, is one of the world’s least

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MENA Buyers Dominate Russia’s Grain Exports

Africa, BRICS, Trade

Buyers in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) region now dominate Russia’s grain exports, with Saudi Arabia the biggest buyer of Russian grain in July, the first month of the new agricultural season, according to the Russian Grain Exporters Union. Russia has become the dominant global exporter of wheat in recent years. Egypt was second,

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RUSSIA'S PIVOT TO ASIA

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