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Pivot to Africa: Can Serbia turn historic non-aligned ties into a 21st-century economic strategy?

For decades, Africa existed in Serbian diplomatic vocabulary more as a memory than as a platform. It lived as nostalgia from the Non-Aligned Movement era, as diplomatic goodwill based on a shared historical chapter when Belgrade carried global relevance, but not as a structured economic strategy. That era is ending. Serbia in 2025 is quietly engineering a return to Africa—not as a symbolic partner, not as a nostalgic friend, but as a pragmatic, opportunity-driven economic actor in a continent that…