Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Honourable Julius Mattai, the country’s Director General of the National Minerals Agency (NMA), Hadji Dabo and other officials of NMA arrived in Moscow, Russia.

The visit was made ahead of the second International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists organized by The People’s Friendship University named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN) on the theme “Sustainable Development of Civilization: Corporation, Science, Education, Technology – Africa’s Pathway to the 17 SDGs: An Integrated Approach.”

The Minister and his team are expected to engage top-level government and business leaders.