Africa wants India to help make ‘Make in Africa’ successful

India-Africa Forum Summit 2015 is on in New Delhi and, impressed with the ‘Make in India’ message, several of the African ministers took up the subject of investment in their countries by India. They have made an appeal to India for a 'Make in Africa' program alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India campaign.
Foreign Ministers of South Africa and South Sudan have aggressively pushed for investments in their countries. As they have explained – Africa has resources and the Make in India initiative could get a boost with the help of technology available in India.
Simultaneously, with investments by India in South Africa, a similar program of Make in Africa can also be visualized. This was put up in the Ministerial Meeting of the 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 28 October 2015.

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, the foreign minister of South Africa has said that the Indian Ocean not only separates India and South Africa but also connects them. In her opinion, both the countries should cooperate in exploring the marine resources with the help of modern technology.
There were 40-odd foreign ministers of African nations, cutting across regions, who gave speeches in the programs and they spoke in different languages like English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.
Incidentally, the menu at the dinner for African trade ministers, hosted by Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, did not have any beef. There were two non-vegetarian dishes — fish (narial bata betki paturi) and chicken chettinad — apart from a range of vegetarian fare, including Gujarati kadi.
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