The Russia–Africa Summit is the highest-profile and largest-scale event in Russian–African relations, aimed at bringing about a fundamentally new level of mutually beneficial partnership to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The goal of the event is to promote efforts to strengthen comprehensive and equal cooperation between Russia and African nations across all areas of society including politics, security, economic relations, science and technology, and the cultural and humanitarian spheres.
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Rwanda, whose Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe was also in Sochi 2024 , is one of several African countries which have already signed deals with Moscow to get help building a nuclear power plant.
He told the AFP news agency that hundreds of Rwandan students had graduated from Russian universities, including “those who specialize in nuclear science”.
“We hope to be able to train a certain number of scientific managers specializing in this field,” he added.
But five years ago, Putin promised to double trade with Africa – this has not happened.
But using other means, which the West sees as destabilizing the continent, Russia’s influence has grown significantly.
