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Both India and Africa have emerged out of the same colonial history.
India strongly supported independence movements in African nations.
Major African nations were part of NonAligned Movement.
Many African nations support Indias UNSC permanent membership aspirations.
Africa is rich in mineral and non mineral resources and India can be a major importer.
Africa needs investments and India can contribute immensely in this area.
Indian companies are investing a lot in major African nations.
Indias exports comprise mainly primary and semifinished iron and steel products, dru
and pharmaceuticals, machinery and instruments, metal, plastic and linoleum produc
paper and paper products, yarns and textiles, chemicals, transport equipments, etc.
Indias imports comprise mainly oil, metallic minerals, pulses, semiprecious ston
leather, cotton, oil seeds and spices.
China
China has invested a lot in many resource
rich African nations.
It secured many projects in oil rich
countries to build infrastructure like
railway lines, roads, bridges etc. (Foreign
Exchange = ~ 3 trillion dollars)
Chinese companies receive immense
support from their government.
Chinese bureaucrats and diplomats are
given targets with respects to securing
investment opportunities.
Chinese Exim Bank provides cheap loans
to its companies investing in Africa.
Chinese bring their own workers form
China. This is a cause of conflict between
the locals and the Chinese companies.
Chinese troops have shot African citizens
agitating against Chinese companies.
Chinese mantra is total plunder.
China is a dictatorship and it helps
India
India has invested in countries with
significant India diaspora.
Doesnt have enough economic
muscle (Foreign Exchange
fluctuates between 300400 billion
dollars)
Who doesnt know about Indian red
tapeism!!
No motivation.
Win
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Automobiles and spare parts, agricultural and industrial machinery and equipme
pharmaceuticals, mobile phones and accessories, foodstuff (frozen bovine me
chickpeas, milk powder, rice, spices,cashew nuts) and cosmetic products.
Majors export items to India
Oil, gas, lubricants and phosphate.
IndiaDjibouti Relations
It is strategically located at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and the Indi
Ocean.
Trade
The IndiaEgypt Bilateral Trade Agreement has been in operation since March 1978 and
based on the Most Favoured Nation clause.
The top five Indian exports during FY 201415 were mineral fuels, meat, vehicles a
parts, cotton yarn and organic chemicals.
While the top five Indian imports were crude petroleum, rock phosphate, inorgan
chemicals, cotton and fruits.
India always had cordial and friendly relationship with the Democratic Republic of Con
[DRC].
India was among the first countries to establish a diplomatic mission in Kinshasa.
India had sent its Gurkha troops to DRC during 196062, under ONUC [U
peacekeeping mission], for countering the rebellion in Katanga province.
Trade
Trade and Commercial linkages between both countries are limited distance a
infrastructure being the main constraints.
DRC is very rich in natural resources such as cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold, silv
zinc, manganese, tin, germanium, uranium, radium, bauxite, iron ore, co
hydropower and timber.
There is tremendous possibility of enhanced bilateral cooperation.
Ghanas main (traditional) exports are gold, cocoa, nuts and timber products.
Gold accounted for nearly 81% of the total imports by India from Ghana.
Indias major exports to Ghana include pharmaceuticals, agricultural machine
transport vehicles, electrical equipment, plastics, iron & steel, ethyl alcohol, beverages
spirits, cereals, madeup textiles etc
Though separated by geography, India and Libya enjoy strong bilateral ties.
India established its Diplomatic Mission in Tripoli in 1969.
The high water mark of IndoLibya relations was the visit of Late Prime Minister M
Indira Gandhi to Libya in 1984.
India has supported Libya in international fora.
India welcomed the United Nations Security Council resolution 1506 adopted
September 12, 2003, lifting sanctions imposed on Libya.
Liberation of Libya
Following revolution in March 2011 in order to support Libyan revolutionaries and
impose sanction on Libya Resolutions were moved in the United Nations.
India abstained in voting in the UN.
Libya is currently passing through a fragile political and security situation.
In view of the deteriorating security situation, the Embassy issued several advisories
the Indian nationals to leave the country.
From August 2014 around 3592 Indian nationals were evacuated from Libya.
Trade
The main items of Indias exports to Libya are Stone, Plaster, Tobacco, Coffee, Drugs
pharmaceuticals, and other commodities.
The main item of Indias imports from Libya is petroleum (crude and products) a
Aluminum ores.
The main items of exports from Madagascar to India are Coffee, Spices, Edible Vegetabl
Salt, Sulphur & Earth, Essential Oils & Resinoids, Base Metals, Precious and Sem
precious Stones, etc..
The major imports from India are Cereals, Apparel Products, Iron & Steel, Cotto
Pharmaceutical Products, Products of the Milling Industry, Sugar and Sug
confectionery, etc.
Diaspora
IndiaMauritania Relations
Economy: Apart from fisheries, Mauritania's extensive mineral resources include iron o
gold, copper, gypsum, and phosphate rock and exploration is ongoing for uranium, cru
oil, and natural gas.
IndiaMauritius Relations
From 1820s, Indian workers started coming to Mauritius to work on sugar plantations.
From 1834, when slavery was abolished by the British Parliament, large numbers
Indian workers began to be brought to Mauritius as indentured labourers.
November 2, 1834 marks the day when the ship Atlas docked in Mauritius carryi
thefirst batch of Indian indentured labourers. This day is now observed in Mauritius
Aapravasi Day.
In all, about half a million Indian indentured labourers are estimated to have be
brought into Mauritius between 1834 and the early decades of the 20th century, out
whom about twothirds settled permanently in Mauritius.
As a tribute to Gandhiji and the Indian freedom struggle, the National Day of Mauritius
celebrated on March 12 (the date of launch of Dandi Salt March).
Trade
Indias exports to Mauritius comprise largely of petroleum products.
India and Mozambique enjoy close, friendly relations built upon traditional links dati
back to the precolonial period.
Traders and merchants from the Indian subcontinent came to Mozambique centur
back, even before Vasco da Gama set sail for Africa and India.
These traditional links have grown from strength to strength over the years as a result
which India and Mozambique today find a lot of common ground to cooperate with ea
other for their mutual benefit.
After the outbreak of civil war in 1991, a multinational United Task Force (UNITAF) w
deployed ahead of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) till 1994 follow
by the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers in 1995.
Mahatma Gandhi started his Satyagraha movement in South Africa over a century ago.
India was at the forefront of the international community in its support to t
antiapartheid movement it was the first country to sever trade relations with t
apartheid Government (in 1946) and subsequently imposed a complete diplomat
commercial, cultural and sports embargo on South Africa.
India worked consistently to put the issue of apartheid on the agenda of the UN, NAM a
other multilateral organizations and for the imposition of comprehensive internation
sanctions against South Africa.
Indias relations with South Africa were restored after a gap of over four decades with t
opening of a Cultural Centre in Johannesburg in May 1993.
The major part of the Indian origin community came to South Africa from 1860 onwar
as farm labour to serve as field hands and mill operatives in the sugar and oth
agricultural plantations of Natal (which was then a British colony).
Most of these initial migrants were from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh with some fro
eastern UP and Bihar. A second wave of Indians came after 1880.
These were the passenger Indians socalled because they paid their fares
passengers on board a steamship bound for South Africa. This was the community
traders who mainly hailed from Gujarat.
The South African Indian origin community numbers around 1.5 million and constitu
about 3% of South Africas total population.
About 80% of the Indian community lives in the province of KwaZulu Natal, about 15%
the Gauteng (previously Transvaal) area and the remaining 5% in Cape Town.
South Africans of Indian origin are wellrepresented in Government, business, med
legal and other professions.
The year 2010 marked the 150th anniversary of the first arrival of Indians in South Afri
2014 marked 100 years of Gandhijis final departure to India from South Africa
reached India on 9th Jan 2015 this date now commemorated annually
PravasiBhartiya Divas.
South Sudan was a part of AngloEgyptian Sudan, under joint BritishEgyptian rule, fro
18991955.
After two civil wars (196272 and 19832005), a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CP
was signed between the Government of Sudan and Sudan People's Liberation Moveme
(SPLM) on 09 January 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya which led to autonomy for the South, and
South Sudanese referendum on independence in six years' time.
Consequently, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 09 July 2011, followi
a peaceful referendum in which 98.5 percent South Sudanese voted for independence.
South Sudan is the 193rd member of the United Nations and 54th member of the Afric
Union.
India did not take sides in the two civil wars therefore, unlike some other countries
carries no baggage from the past.
IndiaSudan relations go back in history to the time of the Nilotic and Indus Val
Civilizations.
There is evidence of contacts and possibly trade almost 5,000 years ago throu
Mesopotamia.
In 1935, Mahatma Gandhi stopped over in Port Sudan (on his way to England by boat).
British Indian troops fought alongside their Sudanese counterparts in Eritrea in 19
winning the decisive battle of Keren.
The first Sudanese Parliamentary elections in 1953 were conducted by Shri Sukumar Se
the then Indias Chief Election Commissioner (the Sudanese Election Commission, form
in 1957, drew heavily on Indian elections norms and laws).
In 1993 and 1994, India voted against UN resolutions critical of Sudan, and oppos
moves in 1994 to make Sudan compulsorily withdraw from the IMF.
Strong political relations continue between the two countries in different regional a
international fora.
Trade
Tanzanias major exports to India include gold, cashew nuts, pulses, timber, spic
(mainly cloves), ores and metal scrap, gemstones, tanning/dyeing and coloring materia
nonferrous metals, essential oils, leather, silver, etc.
There were frequent exchanges of high level visits in the past, bilateral or to atte
Summits such as NAM.
Former Prime Minister Shri Vajpayee and President Mugabe met twice in the year 2003
the sidelines of UNGA and NAM Summit.
Indian companies are looking for investments in mining coal, granite, gold a
diamonds.
India has strong presence in pharmaceutical sector in Zimbabwe and Indian medicin
are readily available in the local market.
Trade
India is the largest trading partner of Nigeria and Nigeria is Indias largest trading partn
in Africa.
Crude and petroleum products form the large chunk of Indias imports.
Oil Trade: In recent years Nigeria has become one of the main sources of crude for Ind
India imports around 8% to 12% of its crude requirements from Nigeria.
Diaspora
The Indian community in Nigeria is estimated to be about 35,000 persons about 25,0
Indian nationals and about 10,000 Persons of Indian origin holding other nationalities.
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