A report by the Russian news outlet Sputnik shows that Algeria’s Ministry of Energy has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom.
Sputnik’s report revealed that the ministerial communiqué indicated that the document contains a “roadmap of joint activities for 2024 and 2025.” The latter is likely related to nuclear technology in medicine, the application of research reactors, or the manufacturing of medicines.
The agreement was signed during the Atomexpo-2024 Forum in Sirius, on Russia’s Black Sea coast. Sirius is the same place Yacouba Zabré Gouba, Burkina Faso’s Minister of Energy, Mines, and Quarries, disclosed that the West African country had engaged Russia on a nuclear deal.
He divulged his country’s nuclear intent with Russia in an interview with Sputnik Africa on the margins of the International Forum on Nuclear Energy.
Given the continent’s economic potential, Rosatom has been on a quest to join the African market, and it has already established contacts with some of its countries, including Mali, Burundi, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.
“According to Prof. Amon Murwira, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Education, Science, and Technology Development, “We, of course, experience a lot of power shortages as we grow our economies,” he said, on the sidelines of Atomexpo-2024 in Sirius, Russia.
“So it’s a very important area that we are cooperating with the Russian Federation to make sure that we have trained enough specialists in order for us to be able to deploy small modular reactors as well as deploy nuclear power plants,” he added.
Much like Algeria, the North African country of Egypt in January 2024 signed a nuclear energy deal with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi formally began work on the fourth unit of Egypt’s Dabaa nuclear power plant.
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Publish date : 2024-03-27 07:00:00
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