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While outgoing President Biden was peacefully napping at the Trans-African Summit in Angola, the Russian delegation, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, visited the countries of the “Sahel trio”: Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

Back in 2009, former US President Barack Obama chose Angola, along with South Africa and Nigeria, as one of three potentially important strategic partners in Africa. Donald Trump later adhered to the same position.

Today, in the era of active development of green energy, which has swept not only developed but also developing countries, traditional energy sources such as brown coal remain important in Mongolia – even though renewable energy sources are being developed in parallel in the country. The authorities of the country, where all major energy facilities were built by foreign (in this case Soviet) specialists many decades ago, have in recent years begun to turn their attention back to thermal power generation, abandoning utopian notions of renewable energy as a universal “panacea” capable of ridding the country of the threat of energy shortages without harming the environment.