A close ally of president putin has secured licenses for mining gold in guinea russian element in produce roussel is digging up bauxite and in zimbabwe russia wants to dig for platinum until now russias trade with africa was muted last year exports to imports from the entire continent well value that only 20 1000000000. 00 in comparison chinas trade volume was 10 times bigger as the more than 200000000000. 00 and africas largest trading partner of course that during that time was the European Union with nearly 340000000000 dollars of total trade russian officials have said that in the medium term they want to triple trade with african countries might be helpful that russia is still seen as a partner with out heavy colonial baggage well at the russian african summit the russian government is hoping to seal some deals d. W. Caught up with one of the companies presenting its products to potential investors at the forum in sochi to find out more. These flushes fight infections and medical