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The Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum will take place in ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre (St. Petersburg) on 26–29 July 2023. The event is designed to showcase the various forms and areas of Russian-African cooperation, as well as to define their development in the long term. The Forum programme will include panel sessions and thematic events on major issues of cooperation between Russia and Africa, including trade, investment, industry, technology transfer, food and energy security, digitalization, healthcare, education, science, media, and youth exchanges.

“Africa and Russia are the new centres of an emerging multipolar world. By helping each other, we are on the way to building strong, prosperous and secure regions. The main theme of this year’s Forum is ‘Technology and Security for Sovereign Development that Benefits People’,” noted Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation.

The business programme will include four large thematic tracks: ‘The New Global Economy’, ‘Integrated Security and Sovereign Development’, ‘Cooperation in Science and Technology’, and ‘The Humanitarian and Social Sphere: Working Together for a New Quality of Life’.

International security, fertilizer market stability, food security issues and discussions on joint efforts to combat epidemics and emergencies will be the main topics of the ‘Integrated Security and Sovereign Development’ track.

Prospects for cooperation in the energy, trade and economic sectors, creation and development of new logistics routes will be discussed in the ‘The New Global Economy’ track.

A large block of the programme will also be devoted to cooperation in the field of technology. Nuclear technology, shipbuilding, mining, healthcare and other important areas will be discussed here.

Education, tourism, the film industry and the development of voluntary movements will be the themes of the fourth track of the business programme entitled ‘The Humanitarian and Social Sphere: Working Together for a New Quality of Life’.

In addition, on the sidelines the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum will hold the Media Forum, the Meeting of University Rectors, and the Roundtable attended by Russian and African Supreme Audit Institutions. An intensive youth programme is planned at the Forum.

The full business programme architecture is available on the official Forum website summitafrica.ru.