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India-Africa partnership reaching at momentum

The interest of various countries towards building partnership with Africa has ever rising from time to time. For long, those developed countries highly intertwined with African countries were not as such many and the same venture that the emerging economy countries have handled the partnership. African countries have many things in common with emerging economies like India and their partnership are more fundamental, crucial and both government to government as well as people to people.

India Africa Summit

The second Africa-India Summit convened in Addis, (the political capital of Africa) this past week. The initial launching, or the first Africa-India Summit was held in New Delhi in 2008. Previously, the Chinese had launched their version of Africa-China Summit in Beijing (2006) followed by their second summit in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt.)

Long timid in international affairs, India is starting to make waves

For all its elephantine weight, India has long shown mouselike diplomatic clout. Historically, its diplomacy was constrained by poverty at home, fraught relations with neighbours, notably Pakistan and China, and an anxiety to avoid taking sides in the cold war. Even today, its foreign service remains woefully understaffed: both New Zealand and Singapore have more serving diplomats. Now India is trying harder to get noticed.

"Senegalese exports to India are higher than Senegalese imports from India"

According to Mr. Amadou Niang, the Senegalese Commerce Minister the partnership between Senegal and India is very beneficial for the country. Participating to the Africa-India Summit being held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, he stated that there is surplus in the trade balance with India. However, the expectations of the Senegalese side are not entirely satisfied.

Trading a new route

By M.K.Venu

India has completely rebranded its partnerships in Africa. India can differentiate itself from China if the government does its job of partnering with Africa in institutional capacity building and the private sector takes the lead in creating new markets for goods and services on a sustained basis.

India in Africa

The second India-Africa summit at Addis Ababa has set the stage for a comprehensive re-engagement between the world's largest democracy and an emerging continent.

Creating colleges for a continent

By Vijay Mahajan

Much has been said and written about the Indian demographic dividend -the young population that is actively fuelling the economic and consumer markets of India. Africa, however, is ahead of any other region of the developing world in youthfulness.

India proposes, Africa promises

By Bhaskar Balakrishnan

The India-Africa Summit mechanism seeks to inject economic substance into the relationship, based on common political, historical, and cultural factors.

A bend in the African river gives Indian sails a friendly push

By Harish Gupta

India�s �look Africa� policy has started paying rich dividends and the second India-Africa Forum Summit, in Addis Ababa, is a major milestone.

India's stake in Africa's future

By Siddharth Varadarajan

More than any other region, it is Africa that has to be a strategic priority for India. What we must offer is a partnership no other power is willing or able to extend to the continent.