The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, will visit Mozambique as part of a trip to Africa to take part in the summit of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies..

The state visit to Mozambique was confirmed by Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the social network X (formerly Twitter), without revealing any more details about Díaz-Canel's agenda in Mozambique.

The message from the ministry also confirmed that the President of Cuba will begin his tour of Africa with a state visit to Angola, something already announced on Saturday by the Angolan presidency.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry also said that Díaz-Canel will also visit Namibia and take part, as rotating president of the Group of 77 and China (a bloc of developing countries), in the BRICS summit.

The summit of the BRICS bloc - made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - is scheduled for Johannesburg between August 22 and 24.

China, Brazil, India and South Africa will be represented by their respective heads of state at the summit. Russia, which is also a member of the bloc, will be represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

On the agenda for this year's Johannesburg summit is the possible expansion of the BRICS.

Several African countries have expressed their desire to join the bloc, including Algeria, Egypt and Ethiopia.

A total of 69 countries were invited to the summit, including all the African states.

The BRICS have gained renewed importance in the context of the imposition of sanctions against Russia, aimed at isolating the country from international trade, following the invasion of Ukraine.