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Egypt seeks more economic engagement with India

As its foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, arrives in India this week, the Egyptian government is keen on India stepping up trade and economic ties with the north African country, especially in its ambitious Suez Canal Corridor Project that is aimed at becoming a bridge between Africa with Asia and earning billions of dollars for the politically-transforming country in the process.

'India needs to increase engagement with West Africa'

India should not have a “one size fits all policy” towards Africa and there is need to increase interaction and trade with Western Africa, especially with Niger having large uranium reserves and willing to export to energy-hungry India, said a group of experts who visited West Africa as part of an advisory group on the continent.

'Invest in South Africa, double your money'

By Biswajit Choudhury

"Those who invest in South Africa never go wrong, they double their investments. I give people the example of the Tatas," a minister from the country says.

Indian banks ramp up presence in Africa

By Saroj Mohanty

Indian commercial banks are expanding their footprint in Africa by being on the ground, working with consumers and businesses, and building two-way trade and investment.

India closing relations deficit with West Africa: Khurshid

India is looking for greater engagement with West Africa to balance its historically robust ties with the eastern and southern parts of the continent, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said.

'India, Africa should have strategic dialogue for better understanding'

By Biswajit Choudhury

Indians and Africans should have more Track-II dialogues for greater understanding that would help prevent the kind of situation provoked by the recent incidents in Goa involving Nigerians.

African media urges Indian media to invest in continent

By Hadra Ahmed

Media leaders from Africa have at a meeting in Addis Ababa urged their Indian counterparts to invest in the continent's communications and technology sector.

Djibouti helping India combat piracy in Indian Ocean

By Biswajit Choudhury

Djibouti, a tiny nation of less than three million people in the Horn of Africa, is cooperating with India closely to combat threats to shipping in the Indian Ocean from pirates based out of civil war-wracked Somalia. Djibouti is an important transit port for regional and international shipping as well as a base for refuelling.

UNSC reforms can't wait till cows come home: India

Saying that the credibility of the UN Security Council is at stake, India has sought a results-based timeline for reforms in the world organisation's supreme decision-making body to give it a more equitable representation globally.

Indian mission to Mars; among global space leaders

By Venkatachari Jagannathan

India's first Mars orbiter successfully began an ardous 400 million km long journey to Mars, making it the first Asian country and the fourth in the world to undertake a mission to the red planet in the hope of finding methane and minerals.