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Ghzlan Mahmoud Abdul Aziz
As an economic supporting tool from Indian government to the
African countries, the India’s export-import (EXIM) Bank extended
a $30 million credit line to the African Export-Import Bank to fund-
ing India’s exports to the latter’s members. As a part of the EXIM
bank, the Focus Africa Program (FAP) was launched through 2002
-2007 strategy .Through this program the Indian government pro-
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vides financial support to different trade promotion organizations,
export encouragement councils and umbrella trade relations in the
structure of Market Development Assistance.
In November 2005 the EXIM Bank, in concert to the CII, or-
ganized a council on India–Africa Partnership Project entitled “Ex-
panding Horizons”, meant on deepening economic relations with the
continent, around 160 delegates came from thirty-two African states,
and above seventy projects, expected at more than $5 billion, were
discussed. This was followed by an additional summit, which took
position in October 2006, where over than 300 African delegates and
375 Indian businesses community attended and discussed more than
300 projects value $17 billion. amongst the 350 member African del-
egation visiting the 2006 council meeting, Togo achieved the top of
the list of investment seekers requesting with $4.6 billion, followed
by South Africa’s $4 billion demand, Ghana’s $3.7 billion, and Ni-
geria’s $2.6 billion .
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In 2007, the council Partnership Project was extensive to three
regional agreements in Africa, which took place in Côte d’Ivoire,
Mozambique and Uganda. According to this program, Mauritius is
the major investor in India with approximately total FDI inflows of $
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