NEW DELHI: India has signed a free-trade agreement with Mauritius when similar deals with the U.S. and Europe have eluded it. This may seem odd as Mauritius is hardly a manufacturing power, its main exports comprising frozen fish, biscuits, sugar products, apparel, medical and surgical equipment and so on, totalling 615 items, products that are […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The figures are impressive: India has offered nearly $13 billion as lines of credit to 43 African states, 189 projects have been completed while 77 others are under various stages of execution. By any yardstick, India’s “Development Partnership” has given African governments the flexibility of choosing what projects merit priority, and with financing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Three years after it was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor is yet to get off the ground. The corridor was touted as the rival to China’s mega trans-continental Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), so the lack of movement is disappointing. “There has been some stalemate in the process… […]Read More
BENGALURU:On the sidelines of Aero India 2021 that concluded last week, India’s Defence Ministry hosted a conclave of defence ministers of countries in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) that saw the participation of over two dozen nations. Among the attendees was Richard Rakotonirina, the Defence Minister of Madagascar. “We consider IOR as a crucial geopolitical area […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China has made “a solid contribution to economic development” in the African continent, but we need to be equally candid about the whole question of debt,” says Dr Witney W. Schneidman, Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs. He points to one example of Zambia “skipping its ($42.5 million) coupon […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why is 2019 Nobel peace laureate Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed conducting a ‘war’ on the country’s Tigray region? Theodore Murphy, Director of the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, explains the genesis of what PM Abiy describes as a ‘campaign to uphold the rule of law’, the “explosion of […]Read More
PUNE: There are very few modern-day wars that have ended decisively. The shining example of one which did is the 1971 Indo-Pak war for the liberation of Bangladesh. The Azerbaijan and Armenia conflict for the independent region of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) has now become the second example of a decisive war. Last week, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Thank You, Gautam Sawang, you should be part of this celebration since you nurtured me professionally in Liberia,” says United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year, Assistant Superintendent Doreen Mazuba Malambo. Damodar Gautam Sawang is the current Director General of Police of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and was Police Commissioner […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a “lot of anger” after reported law enforcement firing killed an unconfirmed 12 people in street protests in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, says senior journalist Philip Obaji Jr., adding “this is not the end though the demonstrators’ momentum” has fallen after curfew and restrictions were imposed. Speaking from Abuja to StratNews Global […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Oil and politics can make for a deadly cocktail as Guyana, a small country on the Atlantic coast of South America, has discovered. More than a month after elections were held, the country remains embroiled in a bitter dispute over the results, with the West threatening sanctions after the Georgetown district election office declared […]Read More
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