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The delegation of the Center for African Studies exchanged copies of the cooperation agreement between the HSE University and Makerere University of the Republic of Uganda.

On September 10, 2025, the HSE Centre for African Studies celebrated its fifth anniversary. During the ceremony at the HSE's Cultural Centre, the expert and analytical handbook Africa 2025: Opportunities and Risks was presented by the team of authors.

The delegation of the Center for African Studies exchanged copies of the HSE cooperation agreement with Nkundwe Moses Mwasaga, Director General of the Information and Communication Technologies Commission of the United Republic of Tanzania.

The HSE Center for African Studies invites students to participate in a competition for a two-month paid internship at the African Energy Chamber (AEP) in Johannesburg, South Africa.

During the participation in the Global Digital Forum in Nizhny Novgorod on June 5-6, 2025, representatives of the HSE Center for African Studies have signed two agreements on international cooperation. One of them has established cooperation with the Universal Digital Services Fund (FDSUT) of the Republic of Senegal, whereas the other - with the University of Gondar of Ethiopia.

From June 5 to 6, 2025, experts and partners of the HSE Center for African Studies participated in the Global Digital Forum in Nizhny Novgorod. Andrey Maslov, Director of the Center, moderated the session "Russia-Africa: Cooperation for Digital Sovereignty". among the speakers were participants and partners of the e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program, including officials from Tanzania, the Republic of the Congo, the Comoros, representatives of Rostelecom and Sberbank.

From April 14-16, 2025, the city of Marrakech, Morocco, hosted GITEX Africa 2025, the largest African science-tech and startup exhibition. 

The HSE Center for African Studies signed an agreement with the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and the Digital Economy of the Republic of Congo. It aims to facilitate joint activities within the e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program and provide opportunities for Russian companies to share their digital solutions with African states.

The delegation of the Centre for African Studies was on a working visit to Tanzania from October 19 to 28. With the assistance of the Russian Embassy in Tanzania, the Centre’s staff met with the leadership of the Tanzanian departments responsible for digitalization in order to inform them about the E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program. The Center’s staff also met with representatives of Russian authorities and businesses and attended the Tanzania Annual ICT Conference (TAIC) and Tanzania Mining & Investment Forum.

On 28 July, at the Second Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum, a round table "Knowledge Sharing: Exchange of Experience in the Field of Digitalization of Public Administration" was held. The discussion was moderated by Anastasia Pavlenko, Deputy Executive Director and Director for Strategic Partnerships of the non-state development institute Innopraktika. The event was attended by Andrey Maslov, Director of the HSE University Center for African Studies and Coordinator of the Knowledge Sharing Program; Igor Lyapunov, Senior Vice President for Information Security at Rostelecom and General Director of Rostelecom-Solar; Souef Kamalidini, Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Digital Economy of the Comoros; Peya Mushelenga, Minister of Information and Communication Technology of Namibia; Orlando Mazuze, General Manager of MaCh Digital (Mozambique); and Adamu Garba, President of IPI (Nigeria).