India, Germany and Africa: the new priority
Germany and India, two major countries and economies, are vastly different in many ways. Yet they share the common trait of pursuing an increasingly proactive foreign policy, both in their near...
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Djibouti’s ‘military base’ diplomacy
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind leaves for Africa on his first foreign visit as president on October 3. His first port of call will be Djibouti, which occupies a strategic location in the Horn of...
View ArticleICT is focus of India-Africa ties
The East African coast, stretching from Cape Agulhas in the south to Djibouti in the north, is a region of immense interest to India for strategic, political and historical reasons. This is the meeting...
View ArticleAfrica’s priorities, India’s approach
Africa has been a top priority for India in recent years, but the quantum of trade is still distant from India’s projected goals.[1] Economic cooperation between Africa and India has therefore been...
View ArticleRe-energizing India’s Africa policy
Africa is considered a foreign policy priority by India. The Narendra Modi government designed a forward-looking strategy to deepen relations with African countries. Its implementation was managed...
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T20 Policy Brief on Digital Transformation
Abstract: Public digital infrastructure, including hard and soft variants, encourages competition, innovation and inclusion. Through the India Stack and Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP),...
View ArticleIndia-Africa through a new lens
Our COVID-19 vocabulary expanded as the World Health Organization (WHO) named the latest mutant detected in South Africa, Omicron, terming it “a variant of concern”. With this discovery sending waves...
View ArticleIndia-Africa Relations: Changing Horizons
A critical evaluation of the evolving relationship between Africa, a continent with 1.34 billion people, and China – the world’s most populous country – which has a population of 1.39 billion, is...
View ArticleIndia-Africa Relations: Changing Horizons
It is close to two decades now since the launch of the India Development Initiative by the Vajpayee government, time enough for a close look at how India-Africa relations have evolved. This book by...
View ArticleTime for Compact with Africa 2.0
G20, the world’s premier forum for dialogue and cooperation on international economic and financial issues, is set to evolve further under India’s presidency. Fifteen years after it held its first...
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