{"id":64635,"date":"2021-04-04T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-oil-power-and-afrocom-in-partnership-to-drive-russian-investment-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T10:30:13","slug":"africa-oil-power-and-afrocom-in-partnership-to-drive-russian-investment-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-oil-power-and-afrocom-in-partnership-to-drive-russian-investment-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Oil &amp; Power and AFROCOM in Partnership to Drive Russian Investment in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Russia\u2019s private investment promotion platform for Africa has chosen Africa Oil &amp; Power (www.AfricaOilandPower.com) as a strategic partner to assist with African market entry for Russian firms; <\/em><em>An official delegation from Russia will attend Africa Oil &amp; Power\u2019s events in 2021; \u201c<\/em><em>We have found in Africa Oil &amp; Power the perfect ally to engage with the continent\u2019s energy sector,\u201d says chairman of AFROCOM.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Africa Oil &amp; Power (AOP)<\/strong> is honored to announce its partnership with <strong>AFROCOM<\/strong> &#8211; Coordination Committee for Economic Cooperation with Africa \u2013 the Russian private investment promotion platform in charge of driving greater Africa-Russia cooperation. AOP is the African continent\u2019s leading investment platform for the energy sector, dedicated to bringing investment to all segments of the energy value chain in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership\u00a0aims to expand the presence of Russian enterprises on the continent, facilitating collaboration with partners, vendors, clients and governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAFROCOM has a renewed mandate to promote Russian-African economic cooperation and partnership and we have found in Africa Oil &amp; Power the perfect ally to engage with the continent\u2019s energy sector, which is in itself a fundamental part of Africa\u2019s road to prosperity,\u201d stated Igor Morozov, AFROCOM Chairman and Senator of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>This is Africa Oil &amp; Power\u2019s first partnership with Russia and it is central to the company\u2019s strategy to partner with government, associations and media \u2013 in Africa and beyond \u2013 to tell the story of the African energy industry to a global audience. \u201cI\u2019m delighted to announce this agreement to support AFROCOM. The energy market landscape in Africa offers huge opportunities for investment and the sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is set to rebound rapidly. Together we will be able to encourage the activity of Russian entrepreneurs, adding value to the upstream, midstream and the entire value chain throughout Africa,\u201d stated Ren\u00e9e Montez-Avinir, Managing Director of AOP.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of Russian investors from AFROCOM will attend AOP\u2019s 2021 events, starting with the South Sudan Oil &amp; Power 2021 event that will take place on June 29-30 in Juba. In South Sudan, Senegal, South Africa, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Mozambique, DRC and other markets throughout Africa, AOP and AFROCOM will work hand in hand to facilitate growth and investment in African energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Oil &amp; Power Conference.<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/africaoilandpower.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/africa-oil-and-power-and-afrocom-in-partnership-to-drive-russian-investment-in-africa?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s private investment promotion platform for Africa has chosen Africa Oil &amp; Power (www.AfricaOilandPower.com) as a strategic partner to assist with African market entry for Russian firms; An official delegation from Russia will attend Africa Oil &amp; Power\u2019s events in 2021; \u201cWe have found in Africa Oil &amp; Power the perfect ally to engage with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":64636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,37914,24143,4263,13716,6018,257,4221,6020,7047,10143,254],"class_list":["post-64635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afrocom","tag-amp","tag-angola-news","tag-drive","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-partnership","tag-power","tag-russian","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}