Kester Kenn Klomegah

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MD Africa Editor 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.

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Negotiating better U.S.-African trade relations in Changing Geopolitical World

The overarching message is African leaders and business corporate executives, navigating new United States economic policy and trade measures, within the context of shifting...

U.S.-Africa Trade in the Trump Era: Challenges, Changes & the Road Ahead

In the context of rapidly changing geopolitical situation characterized by complexities and contradictions, majority of African countries are facing strained challenges with trade and...

Russia and Cuba Bristling at Growing Bilateral Ties

The State Duma, Russia's lower chamber of legislators, bristled in late March 2025 at the strengthening multifaceted ties with Cuba during the first-class interaction...

Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry Negotiating for Russia’s Return to International Sports

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry has opened a new era, the pride for women fighting for higher employment status and portrayed women's advancement, and Africa's rising...

Russia-Zimbabwe: An Analytical Review

Russia and Zimbabwe have been interacting over the past years. The latest historic meeting held on 6th March 2025, full of diplomatic symbolism, between...

Africa in the emerging new world order

Below is an insightful interview conducted by Kester Kenn Klomegah with Mr. Tariq Khan, a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Global Dialogue...

Why the U.S. Skipped South Africa’s G20 Summit – and What It Means for Global Politics

In this exclusive interview on G20, an intergovernmental group or association comprising 19 sovereign countries, the European Union, and the African Union, the President...

Russia Calibrating Guinea-Bissau’s Strategic Partnership

With high anticipation for increased partnership between Russia and Guinea-Bissau has never been stronger since Soviet's collapse. But the the anticipated change to be...

African Culture Consolidating Relations with Russia

Exhibiting African culture has increasingly become the commonest essential feature in consolidating the current relations with Russia. In mid-February, under the auspices and initiative...

Unlocking Africa’s potentials under new AUC leadership

Amid rapidly-growing uncertainty and challenges, the mid-February election of the African Union Commission's chairperson, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, during the summit in Addis Ababa, signifies...

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