Negotiating Power

The first plenary session as part of the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit at the Sirius Park of Science and Art in Sochi, Russia, 24 October 2019, Gavriil Grigorov/TASS Host Photo Agency

Other States in Africa

Premier Zhou Enlai meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie on a visit to Ethiopia, 30 April 1964, People's Pictorial (人民画报).
Nelson Mandela with Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1999, Omar Torres / AFP.

Workers on the assembly line at the Huajian shoe factory in Dukem, Ethiopia. Chinese company Huajian is one of the factories operating in the Chinese-built Eastern Industry Zone, Ethiopia's first industrial park, Jenny Vaughan / AFP.

The African perspective in video

Vice News: The Central African Republic Is Enlisting Russians in Its War Against Rebels

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ARTE.tv: Russian Soft Power in The CAR

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