There is no Russian counterpart to AidData's project-level record of Chinese finance.
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African governments with debt to Russia or the USSR on record, 1991–2024
USD 4.49 bn
owed to Russian creditors at the end of 2024, Egypt 91% of it
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new Russian loans since 2000 to 9 countries, USD 26.2 bn, of which El Dabaa USD 25 bn
4 + 15
energy assets with a Russian role in GEM's trackers, and countries with a Rosatom agreement
Russia reports totals, not projects, to the OECD, and nothing to IATI. What is on record is narrower, and this page holds all of it: what each African government owes the Russian Federation, year by year, from the World Bank's debt statistics; the four energy assets in Global Energy Monitor's trackers with a Russian vendor or shareholder; the 15 countries with a Rosatom agreement; and the Bank of Russia's thin table of investment stocks, which blanks out the countries that matter. Everything else is press, and is listed as press.
The sources agree on one picture. Egypt's El Dabaa nuclear plant is almost the whole of Russian official money in Africa this decade: a USD 25 bn state export loan signed in 2015, drawing down since 2019. Soviet-era claims of about USD 15.6 bn in 1991 were written down to USD 0.45 bn by 2011; the stock has climbed back to USD 4.49 bn at the end of 2024, and Egypt owes 91% of it.
World Bank International Debt Statistics to 2024, release of 3 Dec 2025, fetched 14 Oct 2026 · Global Energy Monitor trackers 2026-08 and 2025-11 · World Nuclear Association profile read 7 Oct 2026 · Bank of Russia table updated 17 May 2023
USD 4.49 bnowed to Russian creditors by 12 African governments at the end of 2024, up from USD 574 m in 2014. Egypt owes the most, 91% of it.
Where it is on record
Sovereign debt is drawn at each country's interior point, sized by the latest stock owed to Russia; hover for the loans behind it. Energy assets sit at their GEM coordinates in the map's status colours. Nuclear agreements and corporate holdings are country-level only, and the holdings, which rest on press reports, are off until switched on.