The MoU will involve Rosatom, the Russian federal atomic energy agency, and the Burkinabe ministry of energy, and will be signed on the sidelines of Russian Energy Week 2023.

The report said the project was a result of discussions between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Captain Ibrahim Traore, the military ruler of Burkina Faso, who attended the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow in July.

Burkina Faso is one of the countries with the lowest access to electricity in the world.

--Reuters--