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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Russian Energy Week: Is the world ready to give up hydrocarbons?

In an official message to mark the opening of the Russian Energy Week international forum on 13-15 October in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Revisiting the Birthplace of Non-Aligned Movement

After 60 years, leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) returned to the organization's birthplace in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. During the two-day meeting hosted...

Google Drives Deeper into Africa

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Eurasian Women’s Forum Focuses on Significant Questions in Women’s World

On October 13-15, Saint Petersburg will host the Third Eurasian Women's Forum primarily to review how women have performed in men's dominated world, identify...

Africa-Turkey Forum to Promote Investment and Trade Under AfCFTA

On October 21 to 22, Turkish and African leaders together with corporate business directors, industrialist and investors are meeting under the theme “Deepening Turkey-Africa...

Let us change the narrative on Africa in the United States -AfDB President

African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina has said that a concerted effort to change the narrative on Africa in the United States...

New U.S. travel rules excludes foreigners vaccinated with Russia’s Sputnik V

Local and foreign media have stepped up reports about rising Covid-19 infections in Russia. While the reports also indicated high deaths in the country,...

What Do Russia and Nigeria Share in Common?

Under the aegis of the newly established Nigeria-Russia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Russians are now gearing up to revamp the Ajaokuta Steel Industry...

Money seized from Equatorial Guinea VP Goes into Vaccine

As a classic precedence, the Justice Department of the United States has decided that $26.6m (£20m) seized from Equatorial Guinea’s Vice-President Teodorin Nguema Obiang...

Dubai Chamber Continues Bolstering Economic Ties Between UAE And Africa

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The Privatisation of War and the International Law to Combat It

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