Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has expressed absolute readiness and emphasized it as a progressive step to host the forthcoming third Russia-Africa Summit scheduled for 2026.

This was the outcome of the consultative discussions held in Addis Ababa and in Moscow in mid-October, 2025, by top-ranking diplomatic officials, emphasizing its (city's) unique status of the political capital of Africa and existing infrastructure for large-scale conferences and summits.

As part of the preparations for the third Russia-Africa Summit, the Russian Ambassador in Addis Ababa, Evgeny Teryokhin, has consulted officials at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. Teryokhin expressed the fact that AU...