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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Russia And Nigeria Deepen Cooperation

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Moscow marks 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties with South Africa

U nder the auspices of Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, an exhibition dedicated to the 25th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Russia and...

Russia broadening economic ties with Asian and African countries

With the worsening relations with the United States and Western European countries, Russia is seen broadening it’s economic and trade ties with Asian and...

Africa: Russia’s strategy and global competitors

Undoubtedly, Africa’s fast economic growth and development, at least during the past decade, has attracted external countries including the United Kingdom, Netherlands, India, Canada,...

Interview: Russia’s business and investment opportunities in Africa

With new trends and directions in global business, African countries have to look to the Eurasian region as a huge market for exports as...

Russia, Ghana And The Message

R ussia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has praised Ghanaian authorities for efforts at conducting successful presidential and parliamentary elections, and the electorate...

Russia ready to restore cooperation with African countries

R ussian president Vladimir Putin has reiterated some aspects of Russia's foreign policy agenda with Africa in speech delivered on November 9, when...

Tools and tactics to engage Africa

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Africa and the possibilities of Russian partnership

For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy...

Russia and Africa: More than economics

A lack of focus and lack of interest are hindering what could be a beneficial economic and political relationship between Russia and the African...

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