Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINAINDIA Help for the East 2nd July 2013 With European security support to be reduced in 2015, Kinshasa is counting on China and India to help the UN mission and Congolese troops India and China are offering to help President Joseph Kabila’s government secure its eastern borders following a series of bilateral meetings in June in Kinshasa. These offer...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | INDIA R. V. Kanoria 2nd July 2013 Former President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Businessman R. V. Kanoria, the former President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, led a 21-member delegation to Morocco on 27-31 May, to attend the Afr...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | MALIINDIA Not in our back yard 31st May 2013 While Mali’s government is preoccupied with retaking the northern region occupied by Islamists and Tuareg rebels, Indian firm Sahara Mining is facing challenges of its own in Tienf...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | GABONINDIASINGAPORE Middleman at the gate 2nd May 2013 On 26 April at the Libreville headquarters of Oil India Limited, Paul Maurice Tomo lay shirtless on the ground in front of a painted sheet that read: ‘Five years that this has las...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 7 | INDIA Salman Khurshid 2nd May 2013 External Affairs Minister, India Salman Khurshid, Minister of External Affairs, was in Uganda on 17-18 April, on his first official visit to Africa. Ahead of the third India-Africa summit due in 2014, Khurshid wa...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 5 | INDIA Prasun Kumar Mukherjee 7th March 2013 Managing Director, Sesa Goa, India Prasun Kumar Mukherjee, Managing Director of Sesa Goa, India’s largest private iron-ore exporter, has announced that his firm will invest US$2.6 billion in the development of three...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 | INDIAAFRICA Big projects and bottlenecks 15th January 2013 Natural resources are still the main draw for investors but new markets for India’s food, services and consumer goods beckon the big companies The Indian National Congress and Manmohan Singh will try to hang on until general elections are called, in mid-2014 at the latest. With corruption fuelling the public’s anger, the ...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIA Chemical of Africa in Lubumbashi pollution row 4th December 2012 A dispute over pollution in Katanga between Chemical of Africa – an Indian company based in Dubai – and local miners and non-governmental organisations may hit Chemaf’s expansion p...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 | ZIMBABWEINDIA Political diamonds 4th December 2012 Harare has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in tax from diamond smuggling: some of it will end up financing next year’s election campaign The row over Zimbabwe’s missing diamond revenues will be at the centre of political campaigning ahead of next year’s general elections. Anti-corruption activists are accusing India...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 | INDIA Anil Sardana 4th December 2012 Managing Director, Tata Power Anil Sardana is looking overseas to escape the constraints Indian markets place on his company. In April 2012, Tata Power formed a joint venture, Cennergi, with South Africa’s Exx...