Powering Progress: How Russian Collaboration Can Unlock Africa's Energy Potential
Powering Progress: How Russian Collaboration Can Unlock Africa's Energy Potential
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This episode reveals a wave of self-determination across African countries to actively dismantle old dependencies and build powerful new systems in their energy, finance, and food sectors, bringing about true independence for the continent.
Russian Energy Week 2025
The stage is set at the Russian Energy Week 2025 in Moscow, and a significant number of African countries are present, signaling a deliberate pivot towards a new, multipolar world. Tefetso Nicolus Kele, founder and chairman of the Nicolus Kele Foundation, Lesotho, gave his comment during the event to Sputnik Africa’s correspondent.
“This is a kind opportunity, especially for young people whom I represent and advocate for because the energy sector is one of the sectors which are deemed technical. And so my passion in this area is about access to information and simplifying it for young people, and also using information dissemination mechanisms which are relevant and meet the context of young people. [...] Sharing opportunities with Russia, expertise, [and] exchanging best practices will actually prove to be helpful,” the participant commented.
Sudan's Plan for Alternative Financial Infrastructure
In an exclusive interview with Sputnik Africa, Sudan's Minister of Finance, Dr. Jibril Ibrahim Mohamed, lays out how his country is actively building alternative financial infrastructure as opposed to facing stringent conditionalities from the West.
In an exclusive interview with Sputnik Africa, Sudan's Minister of Finance, Dr. Jibril Ibrahim Mohamed, lays out how his country is actively building alternative financial infrastructure as opposed to facing stringent conditionalities from the West.
“I do believe when we move out of the Western-dominated system of SWIFT, we move out of also having some foreign currency like dollar or euro, so that you can buy things from Russia or from Sudan [...] We have what we call a Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) [...] that system is developing by the day, and hopefully in the very near future trade will be easier, faster, and more efficient by such payment,” the minister highlighted.
International Day of Rural Women
To commemorate the International Day of Rural Women, Pan-African Frequency engaged Elizabeth Mpofu, Director of the African Women’s Collaborative for Healthy Food Systems in Zimbabwe, as she highlighted the role of rural women as engineers of resilience, safeguarding seed biodiversity and sustainable agriculture through agro-ecological practices.
“From our knowledge, we know that our ancestors, for decades and decades of years, they were producing food naturally without using any chemicals or any herbicides. But when the issue of market was really introduced, especially here in Africa, we had the colonialists, that colonialism era, which brought about issues related to marketing. They had their own specific crops, which they wanted the Africans to grow and abandon their indigenous seeds. Because we know that where they are coming from, they had no land, but they wanted to use the African land. That is what was lost: our indigenous seeds, our way of farming [....] And now, bringing on board the issues related to agroecology, we are trying to revive our cultural norms of producing healthy food, and of taking care of the mother earth, especially the environment, the soil, and whatever is surrounding us. Because we are not using pesticides, we are not using chemicals, we have the knowledge, which we have also learned from our grandmothers, from our grandfathers [....] And the advantage of our indigenous seeds is that you can plant, replant, and replant without any problem. And most of our crops, which you are producing, they are drought resistant,” Mpofu explained.
This episode also features:
Foday Mansaray, Director General of the Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone
Dawit Woubshet, the President, Ethiopian Freight Forwarders and Shipping Agents Association
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