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Don't know whether this falls withing the Africa thread but Algeria is Africa :)
It's more like Africa - US .. It's worth reading abt the machinations of creepy Kissinger in N Africa. Evil guy
Secret talks Kissingen-Bouteflika 1975, declassified:

http://wikileaks.eu/leak/kissinger-bouteflika.pdf





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President of Algeria
Incumbent

Abdelaziz Bouteflika (French pronunciation: [abdəlaziz butəflika]; Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة‎) (born March 2, 1937) has been the President of Algeria since 1999.
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If he was ours, we would probably call him Chankiyan though :twisted:
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India-Africa ties in high gear: Ansari
Dismissing fears that India’s renewed focus on Africa is a response to China’s aggressive investments in the continent, Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said, “The elephant will walk at its own pace.”

Ansari made his comments on board the special Air India flight from New Delhi to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. He will also be travelling to two other southern African countries — Malawi and Botswana — in a trip being hailed as breaking new grounds in India’s engagement with Africa.

India’s total trade with Africa is an estimated 39 billion dollars, according to the Ministry of External Affair’s Secretary (West) Vivek Katju. Another ministry official, who did not wish to be named, told The Indian Express that China’s total trade in Africa “is three to four times higher than ours”.
Mapping out some of the deliverable during his visit, Ansari listed a possible extension of Indian lines of credit to “one or two big projects” in Zambia. On the upcoming trip to Botswana, Ansari hoped to source directly from the Botswana’s diamond mines instead of relying on prices set by a “monopoly”. The South African conglomerate De Beers is the world’s largest miner and trader, and is often accused of monopolistic practices. India is the largest importer of uncut diamonds and Botswana the largest producer.
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Malawi offers joint uranium exploration with India


http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnew ... leID=23998
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Tweets by shashi tharoor
Taking off from Frankfurt to Addis Ababa for African Union's annual meeting. Last leg of my marathon 3-continent trip. Sorry to miss Rep Day
http://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/8273673075

very long day in AddisAbaba,at AU FornMins mtg.Met a dozen African FornMins on sidelines.Grt to catch up w old UN friends esp AUPresJeanPing
http://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/8335591721

Lounges outside conf hall full of impromptu mtgs.Talking pts balanced amongst the coffee spoons.FMs exchanging mobile nbrs.Aides scurrying
http://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/8335692964

Launched Tele-medicine facility at AU w Pres Ping. African docs in Addis can connect to Indian docs at 22 super-specialty hospitals in India
http://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/8335748210

High praise for India as a country that grants assistance multilaterally ¬ just bilaterally.Our Pan-African e-network connects 47 nations
http://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/8335802058
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:rotfl: :rotfl:
Nigeria should be divided into two nations to avoid further bloodshed between Muslims and Christians, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said. In a speech to students, he praised the example of India and Pakistan, where he said partition saved many lives. Splitting Nigeria "would stop the bloodshed and burning of places of worship," state news agency Jana quoted him as saying. A senior Nigerian diplomat said he was not taking the suggestion seriously. Hundreds of people have died in communal violence in villages around the central Nigerian city of Jos this year. The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says Col Gaddafi's suggestion is unsurprising given his past form. Last year, he called for Switzerland to be abolished and for its land to be divided between Italy, Germany and France.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8570350.stm
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IOL: China is boosting ELINT and SIGINT assets in Congo. It has sold intelligence eqpt to Djibouti, which worried french intelligence in 2008. Similar partnerships have been offered to Egypt and Algeria. They already have 2 interception stations in Zimbabwe. Apparently Mugabe used to be a Maoist leader, same as the father of Congolese president.
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Africa's Forever Wars
There is a very simple reason why some of Africa's bloodiest, most brutal wars never seem to end: They are not really wars. Not in the traditional sense, at least. The combatants don't have much of an ideology; they don't have clear goals. They couldn't care less about taking over capitals or major cities -- in fact, they prefer the deep bush, where it is far easier to commit crimes. Today's rebels seem especially uninterested in winning converts, content instead to steal other people's children, stick Kalashnikovs or axes in their hands, and make them do the killing. Look closely at some of the continent's most intractable conflicts, from the rebel-laden creeks of the Niger Delta to the inferno in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and this is what you will find.

What we are seeing is the decline of the classic African liberation movement and the proliferation of something else -- something wilder, messier, more violent, and harder to wrap our heads around. If you'd like to call this war, fine. But what is spreading across Africa like a viral pandemic is actually just opportunistic, heavily armed banditry.
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Gaddafi says Nigeria should split into several states
He said he was wrong to have said earlier this month that Nigeria should be divided into Muslim and Christian areas to end communal clashes.

Instead, he now says several different Nigerian groups want independence.
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South Africa's Zuma in India on first Asia visit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_ ... 216071.stm

South African President Jacob Zuma is in India on his first state visit to Asia since he took office in May last year. The two countries want to boost their trade and investment ties.

India's trade with South Africa - one of Africa's fastest growing economies - is worth $7bn (£4.8bn).
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Gerard wrote:Gaddafi says Nigeria should split into several states
He said he was wrong to have said earlier this month that Nigeria should be divided into Muslim and Christian areas to end communal clashes.

Instead, he now says several different Nigerian groups want independence.
Reflections of a disturbed mind... perhaps he should retire.
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Antony to visit Seychelles on July 17-18
TNN, Jul 13, 2010, 02.46am IST

NEW DELHI: As part of the continuing overall strategy to provide military aid to Indian Ocean Region (IOR) countries and prevent China from further spreading its influence in the region, defence minister A K Antony will be visiting Seychelles on July 17-18.

Antony, who will be leading a high-level delegation, will discuss ways to bolster defence cooperation between India and Seychelles during his two-day visit.

"Both sides will also discuss implementation of a bilateral defence cooperation MoU and other issues like the maritime security situation in IOR and cooperation in anti-piracy measures," said an official.

An Indian Army special forces contingent has been to Seychelles in the past to train its forces in counter-terrorism operations and VVIP security measures.

In recent years, India has taken several steps to build bridges with IOR nations, which range from joint patrolling with Indonesian and Sri Lankan navies and conducting exercises with Singapore and Oman to providing seaward security for international summits in Mozambique.

Maldives and Seychelles, in particular, constitute an important part of this strategy since China is making persistent moves in the region as part of its military diplomacy.
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Seychelles is a good command post for IN anti-piracy ops. Who is the Ambassador there?
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ramana wrote:Seychelles is a good command post for IN anti-piracy ops. Who is the Ambassador there?
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High Commissioner of India to Seychelles: Malay Mishra

Added later: Faux Pas here! He was High Commissioner to Seychelles! The Web Page of Indian High Commission has not been updated for a long time. Can be queried perhaps by writing to hicomind at seychelles dot net.

Now High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago. Looks like he enjoys tropical islands!

Added Still Later:
The new High Commissioner to Seychelles seems to be one Mr. Asit Kumar Nag.
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Uganda bombs kill 74
Somali Islamists said on Monday they had carried out two bomb attacks in Uganda that killed 74 soccer fans watching the World Cup final on television, Al Jazeera television reported.

The explosions in the closing moments of Sunday's match ripped through two crowded venues in the capital Kampala -- an Ethiopian-themed restaurant and a rugby club.

Al Shabaab militants in Somalia have threatened to attack Uganda for sending peacekeeping troops to the anarchic country to prop up the Western-backed government.
"Right now the official figure is 74 dead," government spokesman Fred Opolot said. "There is a white woman, one person of Indian descent, 10 Eritreans or Ethiopians."
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Gabon signs $4.5 bln in deals with India, Singapore

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/i ... 2820100816

No details were given on the firms involved but a statement from the president's office said the projects would include an upgrade of 1,000 km (620 miles) of roads, developing timber and palm oil processing and building 5,000 low cost houses.
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India launches phase-II of African e-network project

http://sify.com/news/india-launches-pha ... cagcf.html

A brainchild of India's then president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the e-network seeks to bridge the digital divide across the 53-nation African continent and seeks to provide tele-medicine and tele-education through a fibre-optic network.

India has signed agreement with 47 countries in Africa, but the infrastructure has been completed in 34 of them.

The project won the prestigious Hermes Prize recently for innovation in the field of sustainable development.
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Majority of Zimbabwe Diamond Tender Went to India

http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullNews.asp?id=34369

Wednesday's tender of some 900,000 carats of rough diamonds fetched nearly $72 million, the majority of which was purchased by Indian diamond traders. As much as $60 million worth of the goods, about 83 percent of the tender, have apparently been imported into India and are already being sorted, IDEX Online has learned.

Zimbabwe government officials said that buyers from Israel, Lebanon and Russia came to take part in the auction in addition to a small group from India, which according to one report charted a plane for the round-trip.
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Apologies if posted already.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/09 ... index.html

Referendum on self determination being held in Sudan that could see the southern oil rich portion of Sudan secede from the north.
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India, Mozambique to raise bilateral trade to $1 bn

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news ... bn/691556/

India and Mozambique have decided to renew their strategic political and economic partnership and set a target for bilateral trade at $ one billion by 2013.

India figures among Mozambique’s top 10 trading partners both in terms of import and export.
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India Offers Training, Revenue Guarantees in Bid to Capture Zimbabwe Diamonds

Defending its position as top global diamond polisher against an emerging challenge by China, India has offered to train young Zimbabweans in diamond cutting and polishing in return for a guaranteed flow of Marange diamonds.

http://www.voanews.com/zimbabwe/news/Zi ... 52079.html

A diamond conference this past week in Mumbai, India, revealed strong interest in Zimbabwe diamonds by banks and industry players in the Far East, sources who attended the conference said. The Indian diamond industry was said to have guaranteed Zimbabwe US$100 million a month in revenues for its rough stones.

The Chinese have set their sights on the global diamond market and hope to cut into India's 80 percent share of the world's diamond cutting and polishing business, the mining website says.
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Published on Oct 22, 2010
By Joe Lauria
China Courts Secessionists in Sudan, Breaking a Mold: Wall Street Journal
China is courting the secessionist government of oil-rich southern Sudan, an apparent departure from Beijing's decades-long opposition to independence movements abroad.

Sudan, after nearly constant civil war over the past five decades, is seeing tensions boil again ahead of a planned independence referendum early next year that stands to split Africa's largest country in two. Voters from the oil-rich, largely Christian south are expected to vote to break away from the country's largely Muslim north. As the Jan. 9, 2011, election date approaches, both sides accuse the other of amassing troops.

The vote poses a conundrum for China. Beijing has consistently opposed independence movements abroad, lest it embolden separatist sympathies at home. And despite its recent overtures to the south, Beijing seeks to maintain its longstanding economic ties with Khartoum, the seat of Sudan's government and center of northern power. China armed and supported the north in the 23-year civil war against the south from 1983 to 2005, in which two million people are believed to have died. It continues to arm Khartoum and has built the north infrastructure projects, including the largest hydroelectric dam in Africa.
So now after facilitating the murder of millions of Sudanese through the authoritarian Sudanese Govt., China is also wooing the South Sudanese, the victims of the genocide, at the hands of Chinese arms sales to the North.

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Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, July 19, 2007 (Xinhua)

Published on Oct 21, 2010
Chinese companies among bidders for Juba-Lamu oil pipeline: Sudan Tribune
Chinese companies are among those that are competing to win a contract for building a pipeline that would pump oil produced in South Sudan through a Kenyan port, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The controversial project would enable the landlocked South to avoid transporting its main export through the pipeline that runs through the North until it reaches Port Sudan.

"China is one of the parties that has been invited to participate," Alfred Mutua, a Kenyan government spokesman told WSJ.

Most analysts believe southerners will vote to secede from the north in an emotional referendum on independence due in less than three months, the culmination of a 2005 north-south peace deal ending Africa’s longest civil war.

But the North is wary of letting the oil-rich South go without arranging for a wealth sharing formula that would prevent an economic collapse in post-referendum Sudan. Currently the North and the South are splitting the proceeds of crude in accordance with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005.
About 75 per cent of Sudan’s proven reserves of 6.3bn barrels are in the south but the pipeline that carries the oil to export terminals and refineries runs through the north.

Sudan exports 60% of its oil to China. Sudanese production accounts for 7% of China’s annual consumption. Beijing therefore has a vested interest in ensuring that the South Sudan referendum goes smoothly so as not to threaten its multi-billion dollar investments in the East African country.
China has a pragmatic reason for tolerating a potentially independent south: It is home to 80% of Sudan’s oil reserves, including most of the China National Petroleum Corp.’s four oil concessions, granted to it by Khartoum. Beijing’s stake amounts to 40% of Sudan’s oil industry.

GoSS last week assured China that its investments would be protected should the South vote for separation from the North.

"The largest investment in southern Sudan today is Chinese. They have invested billions of dollars in the oil sector, and have a large number of Chinese workers in the oil fields," said Pagan Amum, secretary general of the south’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

"We have given assurances to the Chinese leadership delegation to protect the Chinese investments in southern Sudan, and are desirous to see more investment in the future," he further said.
So now that the South is seceding, China is moving fast to cozy up with the leaders of the people, they helped kill. After all Oil is involved.

Published on Oct 10, 2010
By Joe Lauria
Tensions Rise Ahead of South Sudan Vote: Wall Street Journal
The president of semiautonomous southern Sudan has asked visiting member countries of the United Nations Security Council to deploy peacekeepers along the border with northern Sudan, stoking tensions between the two regions ahead of a January vote on the south's independence.

Senior Western diplomats said no formal request for the U.N. troops had been made. But such a request would be "carefully considered by the council" and the U.N., one diplomat said.

The north and the south have fought two civil wars lasting 43 years. The second war ended with a peace agreement in 2005 that called for a referendum on Jan. 9 that would determine whether the south remains part of Sudan or secedes.

Sudan is becoming a political pressure cooker ahead of the vote. Both the north and south sides have accused the other of amassing troops along the disputed border.
If there are problems between the North and the South during or after the referendum, now that India is in the UNSC, India should ensure that a UN peacekeeping force is envisioned to patrol the border between the North and the South, just as South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has demanded. The more the Chinese are torn between choosing between North Sudan and South Sudan, the better it is for India.

India should move quickly to vie for the South Sudan Oilfields and for the construction of the Juba-Lamu Oil Pipeline between Juba in South Sudan and Luma in Kenya. India needs to protect its primary interests not just as far as Oil is concerned but also India's primacy in the Indian Ocean Region. Does India want China to build up an infrastructure for itself all around the Indian Ocean Rim? Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa should be India's backyard. At the moment China is also trying to woo Kenya big time, partly by doing some soft power demonstrations like with Chinese navy hospital ship Peace Ark visiting Mombasa.

Also India should move in to support South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit whole heartedly, especially as it is a period of high-volatility in the region. India should also consider entering into a Defense Pact with the South Sudan Government there, providing them with defense equipment. As long as Sudan was united, India did not want to support some rebel group, impinging on Sudan's sovereignty, but now that South Sudan is on its way to Independence, India can proceed with a Defense Cooperation.

If the money is not there for such projects, India can consider utilizing the India-Japan Dialogue on Africa Framework for securing the Oil Fields. Should there be trouble between North Sudan and South Sudan, strong Indian support to the South would ensure that India is given Chinese share of the Oil Fields in South Sudan as well.

Published on Oct 21, 2010
China Denounces UN Report on Sudan: VoA News
U.N. diplomats accused China on Wednesday of trying to block the publication of the report. They said there is no evidence that Beijing sent ammunition directly to Darfur, but called the attempt to suppress the report "suspicious."

China is one of Sudan's top arms suppliers, but Ma said it has "precisely" enforced the Security Council resolutions on Sudan.

The U.N. says fighting in Darfur between rebels and Sudanese-backed militias has killed about 300,000 people since 2003 and made nearly 3 million people homeless.

The Sudanese government puts the death toll at 10,000.
India should consider becoming a major defense equipment provider to South Sudan.
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Published on Oct 03, 2010
By Julius N. Uma
Exploit South Sudan’s abundant resources, President Kiir tell investors: Sudan Tribune
The Government of Southern Sudan will continue creating conducive environments that will attract potential investors hailing from both the regional and global arena, Salva Kiir Mayardit has assured.

In his nearly one-hour address delivered upon his return from the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, President Kiir, also Sudan’s First Vice President said South Sudan not only has vast economic resources, but remains a potential market for neighboring countries, citing Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and DR Congo.

Specifically citing the agricultural sector, President Kiir noted that South Sudan was capable of becoming the regional food basket, with the entire world benefiting it.
Indians should also consider buying up agricultural land there.
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Published on Oct 19, 2010
By Eric Reeves
Arming Khartoum: China’s complicity in the Darfur genocide: Sudan Tribune
The weaponry and ammunition in this and many other subsequent attacks on the UN peacekeeping force were in all likelihood manufactured in China and imported into Darfur by Khartoum’s armed forces—in direct violation of a UN Security Council embargo on all such movement of arms or ammunition. This is confirmed in a new, unpublished report from the UN Panel of Experts on Darfur, created by UN Security Council Resolution 1591 (March 2005). According to the Washington Post, the UN panel reports “finding recently manufactured shell casings from Chinese ammunition at the site of numerous attacks launched by unidentified assailants against peacekeepers from the joint UN-Union Mission.” This finding clearly implicates Khartoum and its proxies in the attacks on peacekeepers.

As the Post’s Colum Lynch also reports from the UN, China’s response to the report has been “a strenuous diplomatic campaign to block publication.” For the Chinese are well aware of what the report will contain: “at a briefing this month, a UN panel responsible for implementing the [arms] embargo told the Security Council that Sudanese forces have used more than a dozen types of Chinese ammunition against Darfurian rebels over the past two years.” China’s angry response to these factual findings, by an independent UN investigating body, has been to insist that it will “block the public release of the report unless the findings were rewritten.” Chinese UN diplomat Yang Tao urged “the panel of experts to conduct its work under the principles of objectivity and responsibility.” Given the meticulous and comprehensive nature of previous reports from the UN Panel of Experts on Darfur, all fully in the public domain, this demand is preposterous. It reflects nothing more than Chinese embarrassment and anger at being so fully caught out in violating an arms embargo adopted by the Security Council. It also explains why China alone on the Security Council did not vote to renew the mandate of the UN panel.
PRC is a menace sitting in UNSC and should be thrown out and its veto rights revoked by the General Assembly. It is time to curtail the powers of bullies like China.
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Indian Embassy in Sudan
India - Sudan Relations
Indian tractors and three wheelers are increasingly evident in South Sudan. Enterprise India Advantage Southern Sudan is planned for 2009 in Juba (capital of South Sudan). India opened its Consulate General in Juba in October 2007, the first Asian country to do so.
It seems MEA is cognizant of the value of South Sudan.

Juba is the capital city of South Sudan, a soon to be independent nation.
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The third gen MEA is truly rooted in Indic memes.
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India launches Healthcare Project in Tanzania
India's High Commissioner to Tanzania, Mr Kocheril Bagirath, said that during the India Africa Summit 2008 co-chaired by Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and President Jakaya Kikwete in New Delhi, India, the two main area of cooperation envisioned by the two leaders were food security and health care. He said the first consignment of 260 Indian tractors out of 1,680 tractors for Kilimo Kwanza Initiative was handed over this month to Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda. "I might mention here that these tractors are from Escorts House.In the latter sector, health care, we are launching today a partnership between Regency Medical Centre of Tanzania and Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, India which is yet again an Escorts entity," he said.

Regency Chairman, Dr Rajni Kanabar, said that the centre will make available locally all super-speciality medical facilities presently not available in Tanzania. "This will reduce medical referrals abroad, save forex of the country, create more jobs, earn more revenue, retain our Tanzanian doctors and nurses and offer them self sufficiency in the latest medical technology and encourage medical tourism into Tanzania."
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India Loves Africa, Inks Massive Trade Deal With Kenya
BY JENARA NERENBERGThu Oct 21, 2010
The Indian juggernaut rolls on in Africa. Renewable energy, textiles, cruise ship ports, and railways are all part of this latest deal.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1696869/indi ... agreements

India and Kenya are looking to double their trade in the next two years. Kenya wants support in its textile industry and India has its eye on renewable energy sources. The new agreement aims to goose bilateral trade up to 200 billion Kenyan shillings, or about $2.5 billion, by the end of 2013.

India, it seems, is emerging to be a prominent player across the continent of Africa. Trade has grown 145% in the past four years between India and South Africa alone. Yesterday we wrote about India and South Africa partnering up to fight HIV.
"India’s state-run power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) proposed to partner with Kenyan government-owned Numerical Machining Complex Ltd to set up a transformer manufacturing plant to serve eastern and southern Africa regions," reports Business Daily Africa.
The Kenyan cities of Mombasa and Lamu are to get support from the Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) in developing cruise ship port facilities. RITES also expressed interest in developing the Nairobi Metropolitan Mass Rapid Transit Programme and Rapid Light Rail. The Industrial Development Bank (IDB Capital Limited) of Kenya and Exim Bank of India will be facilitating some of the transactions.
Once again, we have evidence that the developing world is partnering up in ways that leave the West entirely out of the picture.
Indian Trade Agreements Could Choke AIDS Drug Lifeline
BY JENARA NERENBERGTue Sep 21, 2010
New numbers reveal just how dependent the world really is on India's cheap anti-retroviral drugs, but free trade agreements with the EU could bring catastrophic changes to developing nations.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1690319/indi ... -countries
India is the primary supplier of anti-retroviral (ARVs) AIDS drugs in middle and low-income countries. And a report from the Journal of the International AIDS Society reveals just how catastrophic it would be if somehow that supply were to get cut off due to political, trade, or disaster-related causes: In some countries, up to 90% of children with AIDS are dependent on India's cheap, generic drugs.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1695279/indi ... -in-africa
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You beat me to it. Whine!
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interesting, it was largely Indian indentured labour that built the original kenyan railways...
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India Billionaires Go On Buying Spree in `Last Frontier' Africa

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-2 ... spree.html
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The Valley of Taboos

A fairly nuanced review of Naipaul's book on Africa. It's food for thought for Indics--our villages have similar beliefs etc. Is the Indic way a more suitable path for Africa's development & growth than the semitic ones?
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Burundi builds trade bridge with India over pots and pans

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India's Jubilant eyes 450 mln euro Moroccan venture

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India's Jubilant Bhartia Group is looking at investing 450 million euros ($628 million) in a phosphate joint venture in Morocco to supply India's growing demand for fertilisers, its chairman said.
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A fairly nuanced review of Naipaul's book on Africa. It's food for thought for Indics--our villages have similar beliefs etc. Is the Indic way a more suitable path for Africa's development & growth than the semitic ones?


Lordy, do look up the Christian obsession with witches and demons.
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Ameet wrote:India Billionaires Go On Buying Spree in `Last Frontier' Africa

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-2 ... spree.html
That is a key difference between India and PRC. In PRC it is mostly CPC govt. itself and its cronies (businessmen) that are the movers, whereas for India, it is genuine businessmen/entrepreneurs that come up from the ranks and move over to the global arena after competing and graduating in the Indian marketplace. These home-grown entrepreneurs will be the key to win in the fight against PRC for market share and global economic dominance.
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A suitable strategy for India to make inroads into the African continent would be to dissociate North Africa from the ME and its Islamism. In this venture, we may lose Egypt and Libya (which has been lost to us from a long time anyway) and Tunisia (which may be wooed by Europe because of its deracinated population) but we can rein in Morocco, Algeria, Sudan and Chad.

North Africa can serve as a buffer region for X-tian European and ME forces to slug it out while we make inroads into Sub-Saharan, Equatorial and South Central continental nations, taking the fight directly to China.

We will have to establish a cultural connect with the mango aadmi of the Dark Continent. What can we find in the ceremonies, functions, events, beliefs, traditions of the mango aadmi of this continent which has a least common denominator with Sanatana Dharma, the Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and Itihaasa.

For example, could we establish a spiritual and cultural connect with the Masai of Kenya by teaching them the Ramayana, where an ape army (consisting of baboons and gibbons) was responsible for Lord Ram's victory? In Zaire and Central African Republic, the vanara army of the Ramayana would have to include gorrillas and chimpanzees (which are the native primates in these nations).

I'm talking of small tweaks here and there to gradually further our strategic goals.
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Klaus wrote:For example, could we establish a spiritual and cultural connect with the Masai of Kenya by teaching them the Ramayana, where an ape army (consisting of baboons and gibbons) was responsible for Lord Ram's victory? In Zaire and Central African Republic, the vanara army of the Ramayana would have to include gorrillas and chimpanzees (which are the native primates in these nations)
Are we now going to propose Hanuman was an African? :eek:

This may be insulting to both cultures and peoples.
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