Russia’s Strategic Pivot to Africa: Education, energy, and trade reshape a continent

Russia’s agricultural exports now account for more than 14% of all African food imports in physical terms, with Russian supplies making up over a third of the wheat, barley, and sunflower oil imported by African nations.

The El-Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt—the first of its kind in the country—stands as a flagship example of Russian commitment to African energy security.

Petersburg, a fourth-year medical student from Congo, Mungemba Mbouissa Prinsnel, presented a paper tracing the history of Russian-African cooperation in higher medical education from Soviet times to the present day.