0217 IST, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 
Africa in India
Fact and fiction on Goa’s ‘Nigerian criminal’ panicBy Praveen Swami / The Hindu
Frictions between local residents and a small Nigerian community in Goa, which Chief Minister Manohar Parikkar estimated at just over 150, have exploded into an international incident, which could have serious repercussions for the over-1,00,000 Indians who live and work in the oil-rich African country. |
Ghana president to visit India
Ghana President John Dramani Mahama will pay an official visit to India Nov 10-13, the external affairs ministry said. |
Indian Rotarians on a medical mission to EthiopiaBy Hadra Ahmed
A team of doctors from Rotary International (RI) Districts 3080 and 3131 of India are undertaking a medical mission in Ethiopia for the second time after 14 years. |
Rajasthan textiles garner interest from Africa, Latin America
Rajasthan's textiles have garnered interest from new markets like Africa and Latin American through the state's annual textile fair, a state government official said Friday. |
Indian women peacekeepers inspire Liberian women
An all-women police unit provided by India, as part of a UN peacekeeping force, inspired many Liberian women to join the West African nation's police and security services. |
Solar systemBy Budhaditya Bhattacharya / The Hindu
In a sequence early in Yasmin Kidwai’s new documentary No Problem! Six Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas , we are introduced to a group of African women (from Malawi, Tanzania, South Sudan and other countries) who have just arrived in India, and are going to be in Tilonia, Rajasthan, for the next six months. It is going to be a difficult six months, for they know no Hindi, and very little English. But they are unfazed. By the end of their stay, they have more than a working knowledge of Hindi, and the power to illuminate their houses and villages back home. |
South Sudan oil exports to continue through Sudan
The risk of disruption of oil supplies to India from South Sudan has been averted with an agreement reached between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir in Khartoum. |
India, Chad hold first high-level bilateral interaction
India and Chad had their first bilateral interaction when the central African nation's Minister for Foreign Affairs and African Integration Moussa Faki Mahamat met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in New Delhi. |
South Sudan president visiting India this month
India will seek to boost its ties with the world's youngest nation and Africa's 54th state, South Sudan, when its president Salva Kiir Mayardit arrives in India later this month. |
India, Morocco ink double taxation avoidance pact
India and Morocco signed a protocol amending the Double Taxation Avoidance Convention between the two countries and to ensure effective exchange of information on tax matters. |
