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Their day in the sun

The South Sudanese minister of information, Barnaba Marial, wells up at the thought of independence for his nation. It is bigger than his wedding day, he says; the biggest day of his life.

As South Sudan emerges, spotlight on Uganda

By Josh Kron

In the last two decades, Uganda has helped bring three surrounding governments to power � in Sudan, Rwanda and Congo.

For the more than eight million citizens of South Sudan, July 9, is a momentous and emotional day. In January, they voted in an historic referendum to separate from the rest of Sudan. That they did so peacefully is a credit to both the North and South Sudanese leadership.

'We are partners in resurgence'

In this interview with Manish Chand, India�s External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna speaks about myriad facets of the burgeoning partnership between India and Africa that is moving beyond the political and economic to acquire a more strategic complexion.

Is Arab Spring wishful thinking?

By Chinmaya R. Gharekhan

The prospects of a meaningful Arab Spring do not look bright as of now.

Days before secession

By: Alia Allana

Peace in Sudan is merely the absence of war. Once it was in Darfur where mass killings resulted in the indictment of President Omar al-Bashir. Again the alarm bells are ringing: similar scenes of ethnic cleansing, migration of thousands of refugees and rebels-versus-the-state threaten to plunge the country into civil war.

'India Africa are only separated by a few years in their development'

Gurjit Singh, Additional Secretary, India's Ministry of External Affairs, spoke to The Capital, an Ethiopian newspaper, about various facets of the evolving India-Africa partnership.

India-Africa summit: from agreement to action

By Rajiv Bhatia

When Dr. Manmohan Singh was the Secretary General of South Commission over two decades back, he worked with its chairman Julius Nyerere, a respected African leader and the former President of Tanzania. This relationship might have moulded Dr. Singh's perceptions on challenges facing Africa and how India should partner with it to secure a multi-dimensional partnership benefitting both sides.

India�s leap of faith from a taker to a giver

By Mahendra Ved

That India can give credit worth billions to other nations was unthinkable a decade ago. Thanks to a resurgent economy, from being a taker for so long, it has turned giver, changing its approach, and a good bit of image, with the outside world.

Trade between India and Ethiopia is rising: Gennet Zewide

�The last thing I want to do before I leave office is to help facilitate and achieve the agreements the two countries have made,� says Gennet Zewide, Ethiopia�s Ambassador to India.