Emerging Powers

As the global politic and world order shifts, the emerging powers in Africa project seeks to nurture African research that enables African policy makers, citizens and civil society to place Africa

PERSPECTIVES ON EMERGING POWERS IN AFRICA: MAY NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE

Following the second India-Africa Forum Summit held in Addis Ababa in May, two articles focus on the event in this edition of the newsletter. First, Prof K Mathews provides an overview of the activities and outcomes of the Summit, as well as commentary on the state of relations between the Indian government and Africa. A second article by Manish Chand also looks at the Summit, with specific mention of some of the commitments made during the event focusing on capacity building, education and human resource training. In addition, Rashaad Amra provides an interesting overview of Turkey’s engagement with Africa in terms of trade and investment activities. Mandarin translations for this month’s edition focus on the African journalist study tour to India conducted by the EMPA Initiative. It also draws comparisons with the tour to China conducted last year. The second article provides a review of the recent report by Global Witness titled “China and Congo: Friends in Need”.
The May edition is available here

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