Russia to Unlock Africa’s ‘Huge Potential’ – Lavrov

Russia to Unlock Africa’s ‘Huge Potential’ – Lavrov

Russia is committed to unlocking the full potential of cooperation with African countries, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at the Second Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in Cairo on Saturday, he said ties between Moscow and African nations are steadily expanding.

“Russian-African partnership is developing steadily across all areas, with substantive and trusting political dialogue continuing at the highest levels,” Lavrov said at the opening plenary session, noting that trade with Africa rose 13% last year to nearly $28 billion. He added that economic cooperation and humanitarian ties are strengthening. “This is far from the limit. We are committed to fully unlocking the huge potential of our practical cooperation.”

Lavrov said Moscow has invited African partners to explore opportunities in the country’s markets, highlighting strong prospects for boosting trade with sub-Saharan countries by building direct links with Russian counterparts.

He added that Moscow sees national-currency settlement mechanisms with African countries as key to “ensuring stable trade and economic transactions and protecting investments,” noting a steady rise in the share of ruble settlements in mutual trade. – RT

Our Take: When Sergei Lavrov says that “Russia is unlocking Africa’s huge potential,” what he means is that Russia military and paramilitary (Wagner Group) forces are liberating the African people from colonial oppression.

What stands in their way is not only transnational cartels, like the Israeli diamond cartel, as well as the CIA, MI6, Mossad, NATO, the UN, the EU, and a galaxy of NGO’s and proxy militia groups like ISIS and M23.

Simply put, Africa is the chessboard where the Sovereign War is playing out, kinetically. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry