Layered on top of that Meloni used the summit to showcase her affinity with authoritarian leaders across the world – she invited India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Argentine President Javier Milei with whom she spent more time than her western European leaders such as France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Olaf Scholz...

The decision to include Africa in the G20 came at the summit in New Delhi in September at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had been talking up the shift in power to developing economies as well as the closer ties between India and Africa (AC blog 17/11/22 African Union wins backing for G20 seat)...

Tinubu who has hardly acknowledged his opponents' complaints was flying to India for the G20 summit hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when the news broke...

Some clumsy protocol by Pretoria meant that India's prickly Prime Minister Narendra Modi took umbrage at a South African deputy minister greeting him on arrival...

Like populist leaders such as Brazil's Jair Bolsanaro and India's Narendra Modi Ruto talked up his tough upbringing: a brilliant student who went to school barefoot and sold chickens by the side of the road near Eldoret in the Rift Valley...

In mid-April British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to India to shore up trade and diplomatic relations with Narendra Modi's nationalist government faced protest from critics for visiting a country that had abstained from condemning Russia's invasion...

He has also been the government's envoy of choice for sensitive diplomatic missions such as reconciliation between South Sudan's warring leaders and negotiations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in early July aimed at increasing Kenya's agricultural exports to the subcontinent...

Ramaphosa will make the most of the international setting with sessions planned with the Prime Ministers of India and Canada Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau...