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Kester Kenn Klomegah

Kester Kenn Klomegah is an independent researcher and writer on African affairs in the EurAsian region and former Soviet republics. He wrote previously for African Press Agency, African Executive and Inter Press Service. Earlier, he had worked for The Moscow Times, a reputable English newspaper. Klomegah taught part-time at the Moscow Institute of Modern Journalism. He studied international journalism and mass communication, and later spent a year at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He co-authored a book “AIDS/HIV and Men: Taking Risk or Taking Responsibility” published by the London-based Panos Institute. In 2004 and again in 2009, he won the Golden Word Prize for a series of analytical articles on Russia's economic cooperation with African countries.

Stories By Kester Kenn Klomegah

Russia2 weeks ago

Towards the First All-African Conference in Sochi

As Russia prepares to strengthen its overall corporate economic profile during the African leaders’ summit, policy experts are questioning bilateral agreements that were signed, many of...
Russia3 weeks ago

Russia and Africa at the Crossroad

A decade and half ago, precisely in May 2004, this opinion article has since remained unpublished by the local Russian and foreign media. But, this time...
Economy1 month ago

Russia races for the African market

Russia plans to offer trade subsidies and investment guarantees as an emergency support for Russian companies to penetrate into African markets, part of the strategy for...
Russia2 months ago

Putin: Russia Ready to Work with Legitimate Leaders

President Vladimir Putin accepted the credentials of 18 newly appointed foreign ambassadors, among them seven from Africa, in a traditional ceremony in the St. Alexander Hall...
Russia2 months ago

Russia’s State Duma and Foreign Parliaments Ready to Influence Global Politics

Russia’s State Duma has gathered parliamentarians from Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, creating a three-day solid platform to discuss the development of international parliamentarism and...
South Asia2 months ago

Russia, Maldives and their Common Interest

Despite the long history of diplomatic relations, over 50 years, Abdulla Shahid has become the first Foreign Minister of the Republic of Maldives to visit Russia....
Economy2 months ago

Results of the Afreximbank Annual Meetings 2019

The Afreximbank Annual Meetings 2019 and the associated Russia–Africa Economic Conference have come to a close. The events ran from 18 to 22 June in Moscow...
Africa2 months ago

Africa Awaits Russia’s Investment

Russia has been looking to raise its existing relationship with African countries and Afreximbank is now providing huge support in realizing that long term goal. The...
Africa2 months ago

Russia, Africa and the SPIEF’19

In 2019, four African countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Lesotho Niger and Somalia – for the first time attend the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF’19) held...
Africa2 months ago

Review: Africa At The SPIEF’19

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held series of diplomatic discussions with a number of high-level African delegations who attended the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF)...