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2023 Russia–Africa Summit

April 10, 2024

For the 2019 event, see 2019 Russia–Africa Summit.

The second Russia–Africa Summit was held at the Expo Forum in St. Petersburg on 27 and 28 July 2023, following its postponement, having been originally scheduled for October 2022 at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[1][2][3]

2023 Russia–Africa Summit
Host countryRussia
Date27–28 July 2023
MottoFor peace, security and development
Venue(s)Expoforum
CitiesSaint Petersburg
ParticipantsVladimir Putin
African leaders
FollowsRussia–Africa Summit 2019
WebsiteOfficial website

Attended by 49 delegations,[4] only 17 heads of state participated in the summit, with 43 previously attending in the first summit in 2019.[5][6]

The summit was attended by Yevgeny Prigozhin – leader of Wagner Group at the time – in one of his first, and final, public appearances in Russia since launching an unsuccessful rebellion. His Wagner mercenaries have supported the interests of the Russian government in several African countries.[7][8]

Putin said that Russia has written off $23 billion of African debt.[9]

Attendees edit

 
Delegations participating in the 2023 Russia–Africa Summit
  •   Head of state or government
  •   Ministers or ambassadors

Hosts edit

Other African countries edit

Heads of state edit

Other representatives edit

Organizations and other attendees edit

Countries that did not participate edit

According to several sources, a Nigerien delegation was unable to attend due to an ongoing coup d'état.[56][57][58] William Ruto, president of Kenya, refused to attend the summit and opted for the African Union (AU) to represent Kenya instead, with a spokesperson saying that he wanted to convey the message to the AU "to carry the wishes of the country at the Summit". He however subsequently attended the Saudi-Africa summit in November 2023 later in the year and the Italy-Africa summit in February 2024 despite saying he wouldn't in leu of AU representation[59]

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a disputed state which is a member of the African Union, did not participate due to a lack of diplomatic relations with Russia.[60]

Russian invasion of Ukraine and Black Sea Grain Initiative edit

Further information: Black Sea Grain Initiative and World food crises (2022–present)
See also: Famine in northern Ethiopia (2020–present) § Effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 16 May 2023, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the leaders of African countries came up with a new initiative for peace in Ukraine.[61] In June 2023, a delegation from Africa, including representatives from South Africa, Egypt, Senegal, Congo-Brazzaville, Comoros, Zambia, and Uganda, visited Ukraine and Russia to call for peace.[62] On 17 June 2023, Ramaphosa and other African leaders met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Ramaphosa called on Putin to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine,[63] but Putin rejected the delegation's peace plan based on accepting Ukraine's internationally recognized borders.[64] According to South African professor William Gumede, of the University of the Witwatersrand, the African peace initiative was treated with "disdain and disrespect" by Putin. Gumede said the visiting African leaders perceived that Kyiv was bombed during their visit to Ukraine "as humiliating... and then in Russia, Putin didn't even bother to listen to the delegation, basically interrupting them before they'd even finished speaking, implying there was no point in discussing anything as the war would continue."[65]

During the Russian-African summit, president Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo urged Putin that the Russian invasion of Ukraine must end and that the African peace plan should not be underestimated.[66][67] Ramaphosa called for peace in Ukraine and expressed concern about food security and rising fertilizer prices.[68] Without specifically mentioning the Russian invasion of Ukraine or any other war, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said that the "only justified wars are the just wars, like the anti-colonial wars. Wars of hegemony will fail and waste time and opportunity. Dialogue is the correct way."[69]

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa voiced support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying that he and Putin "discussed the need for prosperity through peace as well as how our countries can work together to assure food security across the continent", adding that the "victims of sanctions must cooperate".[70][71] Malian military leader Assimi Goïta and Central African president Faustin-Archange Touadéra, whose countries are increasingly reliant on Wagner Group mercenaries, also expressed support for Russia, with Touadéra saying that Russia "had helped to save its democracy and prevent a civil war", according to Reuters.[72] Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki openly denied the existence of the Russo-Ukrainian War during a meeting with Putin.[73][74]

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and other African leaders urged Vladimir Putin to renew the grain deal and allow Ukraine to export grain via the Black Sea route.[75][76][77] On 17 July 2023, Putin withdrew from a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain across the Black Sea despite a wartime blockade,[78] risking deepening the global food crisis and antagonizing neutral countries in the Global South.[79] Following Putin's withdrawal from the grain deal, Russia launched a series of attacks on the Ukrainian port cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv.[80][81] The Kenyan government called Putin's decision to block grain exports from Ukraine "a stab in the back" and said that the resulting rise in global food prices "disproportionately impacts countries in the Horn of Africa already impacted" by the worst drought in four decades.[8][78]

Putin offered to send "free supplies of 25,000 to 50,000 tonnes of grain" to six countries to make up for the withdrawal from the previous grain deal. The countries that were to receive free grain included allies of Russia: Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Mali, and Zimbabwe, as well as war torn Somalia.[82]

Summit events edit

26 July edit

 
Dilma Rousseff meeting with President Putin on 26 July

During the sidelines of the summit, Putin held several bilateral meetings, including with Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, discussing trade, nuclear energy and other topics.[83][84][85]

Putin also talked to Dilma Rousseff, former President of Brazil and concurrent chairperson of the BRICS New Development Bank.[86]

27 July edit

 
A trilateral meeting between Putin and African Union representatives on 27 July

During a plenary session, Putin spoke under a theme of "Technology and Security in the Name of Sovereign Development for the Benefit of Humankind". The session was chaired by Irina Abramova [ru], the director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[87][88]

Before the plenary session, Putin met with Comorian president Azali Assoumani, also serving as the concurrent Chairperson of the African Union, and Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission.[89] He later met with presidents Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique, and Évariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi.[90][91]

After these meetings, Putin had a working breakfast with the heads of African regional organisations including the African Union, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, the East African Community, the Arab Maghreb Union, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the Economic Community of Central African States, the Economic Community of West African States, and the African Export-Import Bank.[92]

Putin and Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa held a bilateral meeting to discuss Russia–Zimbabwe relations, during which he offered Mnangagwa a helicopter.[71] He also met with Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni.[70]

28 July edit

 
Azali Assoumali and Vladimir Putin during the conclusion of the summit on 28 July

Many agreements were signed with participating African countries on this date. Leaders from the Comoros, Cameroon, Uganda, Libya, and the Republic of the Congo, alongside African Union Commission chairperson Moussa Faki, were among representatives giving remarks, with emphasized calls to Putin for an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[93][72] The summit concluded with a final declaration, as well as an official plan for implementing a Partnership Forum for 2023-2026 and a number of other documents.[94]

A bilateral meeting between Putin and Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki was held after the end of the summit.[73]

A confirmed sighting of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in the aftermath of the failed mutiny emerged, showing him meeting with Freddy Mapouka, a presidential advisor in the Central African Republic, and the head of the Cameroonian version of pro-Russian media outlet Afrique Media, at the Trezzini Palace hotel in St. Petersburg during the 2023 Africa-Russia summit.[95]

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For the 2019 event see 2019 Russia Africa Summit This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources July 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message The second Russia Africa Summit was held at the Expo Forum in St Petersburg on 27 and 28 July 2023 following its postponement having been originally scheduled for October 2022 at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1 2 3 2023 Russia Africa SummitHost countryRussiaDate27 28 July 2023MottoFor peace security and developmentVenue s ExpoforumCitiesSaint PetersburgParticipantsVladimir PutinAfrican leadersFollowsRussia Africa Summit 2019WebsiteOfficial websiteAttended by 49 delegations 4 only 17 heads of state participated in the summit with 43 previously attending in the first summit in 2019 5 6 The summit was attended by Yevgeny Prigozhin leader of Wagner Group at the time in one of his first and final public appearances in Russia since launching an unsuccessful rebellion His Wagner mercenaries have supported the interests of the Russian government in several African countries 7 8 Putin said that Russia has written off 23 billion of African debt 9 Contents 1 Attendees 1 1 Hosts 1 2 Other African countries 1 2 1 Heads of state 1 2 2 Other representatives 1 3 Organizations and other attendees 1 4 Countries that did not participate 2 Russian invasion of Ukraine and Black Sea Grain Initiative 3 Summit events 3 1 26 July 3 2 27 July 3 3 28 July 4 See also 5 ReferencesAttendees edit nbsp Delegations participating in the 2023 Russia Africa Summit Head of state or government Ministers or ambassadorsHosts edit nbsp Vladimir Putin President of Russia nbsp Azali Assoumani President of the Comoros 10 Other African countries edit Heads of state edit nbsp Ibrahim Traore Interim President of Burkina Faso 11 nbsp Evariste Ndayishimiye President of Burundi 12 nbsp Paul Biya President of Cameroon 13 nbsp Faustin Archange Touadera President of the Central African Republic 14 nbsp Denis Sassou Nguesso President of the Republic of Congo 15 nbsp Abdel Fattah el Sisi President of Egypt 16 nbsp Isaias Afwerki President of the State of Eritrea 17 nbsp Umaro Sissoco Embalo President of Guinea Bissau 18 nbsp Mohamed al Menfi Chairman of the Presidential Council of the State of Libya 19 nbsp Assimi Goita Interim President of Mali 20 nbsp Filipe Nyusi President of Mozambique 21 nbsp Macky Sall President of Senegal 22 nbsp Cyril Ramaphosa President of South Africa 23 nbsp Yoweri Museveni President of Uganda 24 nbsp Emmerson Mnangagwa President of Zimbabwe 25 Other representatives edit nbsp Aymen Benabderrahmane Prime Minister of Algeria 26 nbsp Tete Antonio Minister of External Relations of Angola 27 nbsp Shegun Adjadi Bakari Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin 28 nbsp Abiy Ahmed Ali Prime Minister of Ethiopia 29 nbsp Mahamat Saleh Annadif Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chad 30 nbsp Jean Pierre Bemba Minister of Defense of the DR Congo 31 nbsp Yonis Ali Guedi Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Djibouti 32 nbsp Oburu Ondo Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea 33 nbsp Mamadou Tangara Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Gambia 34 nbsp Albert Kan Dapaah Minister of National Security of Ghana 35 nbsp Morissanda Kouyate Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guinea 36 nbsp Herimanana Razafimahefa Speaker of the Senate of Madagascar 37 nbsp Samuel Kavale Deputy Prime Minister of Malawi 38 nbsp Mohamed Ould Bilal Prime Minister of Mauritania 39 nbsp Aziz Akhannouch Prime Minister of Morocco 40 41 nbsp Nangolo Mbumba Vice President of Namibia citation needed nbsp Kashim Shettima Vice President of Nigeria 42 nbsp Salah Ahmed Jama Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia 43 nbsp Kassim Majaliwa Prime Minister of Tanzania 44 nbsp Vincent Biruta Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda 45 nbsp Sylvestre Radegonde Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism of Seychelles 46 nbsp Taban Deng Gai Third Vice President of South Sudan 47 nbsp Malik Agar Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan 48 nbsp Nabil Ammar Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia 49 nbsp Stanley Kakubo Minister of Foreign Affairs of Zambia 50 Organizations and other attendees edit nbsp Moussa Faki Mahamat Chairperson of the African Union Commission 51 Workneh Gebeyehu Negewo Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development IGAD 51 Amina Salmane Permanent Representative of the Arab Maghreb Union to the African Union 51 Dilma Rousseff BRICS New Development Bank President 52 Benedict Oramah African Export Import Bank Afreximbank President 53 Gilberto Da Piedade Verissimo President of the Economic Community of Central African States 54 Karin Kneissl former Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of Austria 55 Countries that did not participate edit According to several sources a Nigerien delegation was unable to attend due to an ongoing coup d etat 56 57 58 William Ruto president of Kenya refused to attend the summit and opted for the African Union AU to represent Kenya instead with a spokesperson saying that he wanted to convey the message to the AU to carry the wishes of the country at the Summit He however subsequently attended the Saudi Africa summit in November 2023 later in the year and the Italy Africa summit in February 2024 despite saying he wouldn t in leu of AU representation 59 The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic SADR a disputed state which is a member of the African Union did not participate due to a lack of diplomatic relations with Russia 60 Russian invasion of Ukraine and Black Sea Grain Initiative editFurther information Black Sea Grain Initiative and World food crises 2022 present See also Famine in northern Ethiopia 2020 present Effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine On 16 May 2023 South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the leaders of African countries came up with a new initiative for peace in Ukraine 61 In June 2023 a delegation from Africa including representatives from South Africa Egypt Senegal Congo Brazzaville Comoros Zambia and Uganda visited Ukraine and Russia to call for peace 62 On 17 June 2023 Ramaphosa and other African leaders met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg Ramaphosa called on Putin to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine 63 but Putin rejected the delegation s peace plan based on accepting Ukraine s internationally recognized borders 64 According to South African professor William Gumede of the University of the Witwatersrand the African peace initiative was treated with disdain and disrespect by Putin Gumede said the visiting African leaders perceived that Kyiv was bombed during their visit to Ukraine as humiliating and then in Russia Putin didn t even bother to listen to the delegation basically interrupting them before they d even finished speaking implying there was no point in discussing anything as the war would continue 65 During the Russian African summit president Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo urged Putin that the Russian invasion of Ukraine must end and that the African peace plan should not be underestimated 66 67 Ramaphosa called for peace in Ukraine and expressed concern about food security and rising fertilizer prices 68 Without specifically mentioning the Russian invasion of Ukraine or any other war Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said that the only justified wars are the just wars like the anti colonial wars Wars of hegemony will fail and waste time and opportunity Dialogue is the correct way 69 Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa voiced support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine saying that he and Putin discussed the need for prosperity through peace as well as how our countries can work together to assure food security across the continent adding that the victims of sanctions must cooperate 70 71 Malian military leader Assimi Goita and Central African president Faustin Archange Touadera whose countries are increasingly reliant on Wagner Group mercenaries also expressed support for Russia with Touadera saying that Russia had helped to save its democracy and prevent a civil war according to Reuters 72 Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki openly denied the existence of the Russo Ukrainian War during a meeting with Putin 73 74 Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el Sisi and other African leaders urged Vladimir Putin to renew the grain deal and allow Ukraine to export grain via the Black Sea route 75 76 77 On 17 July 2023 Putin withdrew from a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain across the Black Sea despite a wartime blockade 78 risking deepening the global food crisis and antagonizing neutral countries in the Global South 79 Following Putin s withdrawal from the grain deal Russia launched a series of attacks on the Ukrainian port cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv 80 81 The Kenyan government called Putin s decision to block grain exports from Ukraine a stab in the back and said that the resulting rise in global food prices disproportionately impacts countries in the Horn of Africa already impacted by the worst drought in four decades 8 78 Putin offered to send free supplies of 25 000 to 50 000 tonnes of grain to six countries to make up for the withdrawal from the previous grain deal The countries that were to receive free grain included allies of Russia Burkina Faso Central African Republic Eritrea Mali and Zimbabwe as well as war torn Somalia 82 Summit events editThe neutrality of this section is disputed Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met July 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message 26 July edit nbsp Dilma Rousseff meeting with President Putin on 26 JulyDuring the sidelines of the summit Putin held several bilateral meetings including with Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el Sisi discussing trade nuclear energy and other topics 83 84 85 Putin also talked to Dilma Rousseff former President of Brazil and concurrent chairperson of the BRICS New Development Bank 86 27 July edit nbsp A trilateral meeting between Putin and African Union representatives on 27 JulyDuring a plenary session Putin spoke under a theme of Technology and Security in the Name of Sovereign Development for the Benefit of Humankind The session was chaired by Irina Abramova ru the director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences 87 88 Before the plenary session Putin met with Comorian president Azali Assoumani also serving as the concurrent Chairperson of the African Union and Moussa Faki Mahamat Chairperson of the African Union Commission 89 He later met with presidents Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique and Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi 90 91 After these meetings Putin had a working breakfast with the heads of African regional organisations including the African Union the New Partnership for Africa s Development the East African Community the Arab Maghreb Union the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa the Intergovernmental Authority on Development the Economic Community of Central African States the Economic Community of West African States and the African Export Import Bank 92 Putin and Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa held a bilateral meeting to discuss Russia Zimbabwe relations during which he offered Mnangagwa a helicopter 71 He also met with Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni 70 28 July edit nbsp Azali Assoumali and Vladimir Putin during the conclusion of the summit on 28 JulyMany agreements were signed with participating African countries on this date Leaders from the Comoros Cameroon Uganda Libya and the Republic of the Congo alongside African Union Commission chairperson Moussa Faki were among representatives giving remarks with emphasized calls to Putin for an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine 93 72 The summit concluded with a final declaration as well as an official plan for implementing a Partnership Forum for 2023 2026 and a number of other documents 94 A bilateral meeting between Putin and Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki was held after the end of the summit 73 A confirmed sighting of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in the aftermath of the failed mutiny emerged showing him meeting with Freddy Mapouka a presidential advisor in the Central African Republic and the head of the Cameroonian version of pro Russian media outlet Afrique Media at the Trezzini Palace hotel in St Petersburg during the 2023 Africa Russia summit 95 See also edit nbsp Politics portal nbsp Russia portal nbsp Africa portal15th BRICS summitReferences edit Russia Africa Summit to take place in St Petersburg from 27 28 July African Business 19 July 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