Expert: African countries want to be part of BRICS
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African countries are seeking to join BRICS in order to gain a platform for dialogue on an equal footing. This was stated by Kinfu Tafesse Zenebe, President of the Union of African Diasporas in Russia and the Association of the Ethiopian Community in Russia and the CIS, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the TV BRICS programme “BRICS Dialogue”.
According to him, African countries’ interest in the group is linked to its development and the willingness of its members to build partnerships based on equality.
“BRICS is constantly developing. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke at the Kazan Forum in 2024 about fair international organisations. That is why many African countries want to see an alternative, fair international group,” he said. The expert added that BRICS has several areas of cooperation, including economic, cultural and banking. People in Africa seek equal dialogue on these issues among partners such as Russia, China and India.
