From April 14-16, 2025, the city of Marrakech, Morocco, hosted GITEX Africa 2025, the largest African science-tech and startup exhibition.
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On April 7, 2025, Philip Grinin, an expert at the HSE Centre for African Studies, participated in the Moscow Export Center's online consultation for Russian companies planning to attend GITEX AFRICA 2025, a tech innovation exhibition, which will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, on April 14-16, 2025. As a member of the Centre's delegation, Philip Grinin presented on the features of business negotiations with Moroccan partners.
On April 2, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted the seminar “The Policy of the Leading Non-Western States on the African Continent”. Among the participants were international specialists, Africanists, political scientists and historians studying African development issues.
On February 25, 2025, the African Initiative News Agency organized an international expert round table on the topic "President Trump's African Policy: strategy, interests, consequences" at the Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow.
On December 12, 2023, the Government Coordination Center hosted a strategic session led by the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Among the invited participants were executives and representatives of the higher educational institutions, heads of major companies and organizations involved in international trade. The topic of the discussion was the development of Russia's foreign economic activity with the increasing role of developing economies in the background.
On December 22, 2023, the Winter E-Governance Knowledge-Sharing Week for African officials, organized by the HSE Center for African Studies with the support of Innopraktika, closed.
On December 18, 2023, Moscow hosted the opening ceremony of the E-Governance Knowledge-Sharing Week for African officials, organized by the HSE Center for African Studies with the support of Innopraktika.
On October 31, 2023, the round table “Russian contribution to food security in Africa” was organized by the Rossotrudnichestvo. The HSE Center’s experts, Vsevolod Sviridov and Andrey Shelkovnikov, participated in it.
On July 26, 2023, a military coup took place in Niger, overthrowing President Mohamed Bazoum and forming the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, headed by Abdourahamane Tchiani. A month later, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the withdrawal of the French military from Niger. In their media comments, experts of the Center for African Studies of the HSE University analyze the events in Niger.
Under the Russia-Africa e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Programme HSE Centre for African Studies has launched E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Hub publishing analytics and reports on e-Government development in Africa, as well as on relevant Russian projects that have already been successfully introduced on the continent. The Hub is to ensure the format of knowledge sharing and the exchange of experiences of deploying e-Government solutions between African countries and Russia.