India

India
Population:	1,147,995,904
GDP (Purchasing power parity):	$2.966 trillion
Debt:	$149.2 billion
Overview:	With Indian diplomats like Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor and former Ambassador to Ethiopia Gurjit Singh giving Africa a higher profile in Delhi, India has agreed to provide $5.4 bn. in concessional finance for African projects. Outbid at most turns by other state-owned Asian companies, ONGC Videsh is still looking to make a big investment in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Vol 2 No 10
August 2009

The rice and the rot

Opposition politicians in Delhi are pressing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party government for a full investigation into allegations of corrupt deals worth 25 billion rupees (US$520 million) in rice exports from India to five African states...

Vol 2 No 10
August 2009

Gurjit Singh

India's Ambassador to Ethiopia (Retired)

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

Mittal's meltdown

Hobbled by the global business downturn and billions of dollars in debt, Mittal's plans to turn West Africa into its iron-ore hub are on hold

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

MTN-Bharti merger

Despite shareholder concerns the deal between Africa's and India's biggest mobile companies is set to go ahead this year

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

MTN, militants and share claims

A tangled web of financial holdings stretching from South Africa to Ghana and Lebanon could delay plans for a US$20 billion merger of India's Bharti Airtel and South Africa's Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN).

Vol 2 No 8
June 2009

R.S. Sharma

Chairman and Managing Director, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, India

Vol 2 No 7
May 2009

A shake-out after the crash

China and India want to snap up assets as metal markets hit the floor and the mining houses sack workers

Vol 2 No 7
May 2009

Friends in the right places

Just before President Jacob Zuma's inauguration on 9 May, India's state-owned National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) signed a commercial cooperation agreement with the Congress of South African Trade Unions' (Cosatu) Kopano Ke Matla investme...

Vol 2 No 6
April 2009

From win-win to lose-lose

Asia's barter deals for Nigerian oil were politically charged and have been economically disastrous

Vol 2 No 6
April 2009

Abuja's Asian connections

South Korea: Nigeria is South Korea's third largest trading partner and the largest market in Africa for Korean construction companies. In January 2006, Korean companies were working on 60 projects valued at US$4.6 billion; that is about 75% of all con...

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