Dr Nchemba jets in Moscow as 3rd  Russia-Africa Summit begins today

MOSCOW: PRIME Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has arrived in Moscow, Russia, to represent President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the third Russia-Africa Summit, which runs from October 28 to 29.

Dr Nchemba arrived today, October 28, 2026, and was received at Domodedovo International Airport by Tanzania’s Ambassador to Russia, Fredrick Ibrahim Kibuta.

The summit brings together Russian and African leaders to discuss relations between the two sides.

It is co-chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin and African Union Chairperson Évariste Ndayishimiye, who is also Burundi’s President.

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The Russia–Africa Summit is the highest-profile and largest-scale event in Russian–African relations, aimed at bringing about a fundamentally new level of mutually beneficial partnership to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

The goal of the event is to promote efforts to strengthen comprehensive and equal cooperation between Russia and African nations across all areas of society including politics, security, economic relations, science and technology, and the cultural and humanitarian spheres.

The First Russia–Africa Summit took place on 23–24 October 2019 in Sochi under the motto of ‘For Peace, Security and Development’. This was the first time such a large-scale event had been held in the history of modern Russia, and was unprecedented in Russian–African relations. The participants identified priority areas of economic cooperation where concrete results could be achieved in the coming years.

A closing declaration was adopted at the end of the Summit, outlining the approval of goals and objectives for the future development of Russian–African cooperation across politics, security, economics, science and technology, culture and the humanitarian sphere.