1445 IST, Sunday, October 06, 2013 
India in Africa
Burundi builds trade bridge with India over pots and pansBy Madhusree ChatterjeeNew Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The little landlocked republic of Burundi in the great lakes region of East Africa is forging an unusual business bridge with India by importing casseroles and cooking pans. |
Durban street now called Juma Masjid SquareBy Lakshmi KrishnakumarA plaque renaming as Juma Masjid Square was unveiled by India's Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi on the street outside one of the oldest mosques in South Africa built on a plot owned by a Gujarati immigrant. |
Do business with India, Indians in Africa toldBy Lakshmi KrishnakumarAfricans of Indian origin should look at India as a "land of economic opportunity" and connect more through business and education, besides traditional social and cultural ties, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said at the inauguration of a conclave in Durban to connect the scattered Indian diaspora in the continent to the land of their forefathers. |
800 delegates to attend PBD-Africa in DurbanNew Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) With 2010 being the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first indentured sugarcane labourers from India, PBD Africa - India's mini connect with its diaspora - will be held in Durban Oct 1-2 to coincide with Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the apostle of non-violence. |
Burundi counts on Pan-African e-Network Project to improve medicareBy Prof. Antoine Kantiza, Master UTICEF,Indian medical cooperation in Burundi is in a takeoff phase. Apart from the Aug 19-20 visit of specialists of MIOT hospital to the BUMEREC hospital in capital Bujumbura, other steps that have contributed to this are regular surgical operations by Indian ophthalmologists in Burundi as well as the visit two years ago of Indian specialists to the Health and Surgical Center of Kinindo. During the latest visit of specialists, patients who require surgery were invited to India as operation threatres in Indian hospitals have state-of-the-art technological equipment that is lacking in Burundi. |
India asks Ghana to ink bilateral investment safety treatyNew Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) India Friday urged Ghana to sign at the earliest a bilateral treaty aimed at protecting and promoting their investments in each other's territories. |
India, S Africa shares special relationship: Anand SharmaJohannesburg, Aug 30 (PTI) No other country in the world shares the special relationship that exists between India and South Africa, Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma has said. |
How India Inc is cracking the African marketBy Moinak Mitra, Arati Menon Carroll & Vinod Mahanta, ET BureauFor Manoj Kohli, Indian telecom giant- Bharti's man in Africa, the continental opportunity is immense. He dubs it "telecom's final frontier". The Nairobi-based CEO of Bharti (International) instantly changes gear to bandy numbers about. Sample this. Tele-density in Africa is under 20 per cent. By 2050, the continent will breach a population of 2 billion and the middle class will grow from the present 400 mn to 500 mn. About 25 per cent of global youth is in Africa, with a median age of 17 years. |
Durban to host Africa conference on Indian diasporaBy Lakshmi KrishnakumarCome October and the Indian diaspora in Africa, said to number 3 million spread across its 54 countries, will converge for the Mini Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) - the conference of people of Indian origin - in Durban, marking the city's historic links with India and aiming to "build bridges" between them and their native country. |
