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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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