India’s support is tailored to meet the needs of Africa CDC to contain the Ebola outbreak in some parts of Africa, and to strengthen public health preparedness and regional response capacities.
New dates for the Summit and its associated meetings will be finalised through mutual consultations and communicated in due course, said the Ministry of External Affairs.
This is not a routine Ebola outbreak. The strain involved has no licensed vaccine, the epicentre sits inside an active conflict zone, and the virus has already reached Uganda's capital.
Trump said a coordinated US-Nigeria counter-terror mission in Africa eliminated ISIS leader Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, who allegedly oversaw operations linked to ISWAP and the Sahel region.
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri believes India’s crushing 76-run defeat to South Africa in the Super Eights of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup could serve as a much-needed wake-up call rather than a fatal blow to their semi-final hopes.
The recent peace initiative by the US to put an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict exposed the fissure points of continental Europe.
“Under the PM-KUSUM scheme, we are taking this transformation to the heartland of India,” Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, who is also the ISA Assembly President, announced here at a curtain-raiser event last week for ISA’s eighth General Assembly, scheduled in New Delhi from October 27-30.
As part of its ongoing overseas deployment to Africa, Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Ship, Sachet, an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) made a port call in Maputo, Mozambique on Saturday.
A movie buff at heart, Bakshi says the vast African expanse instantly brought to mind the sweeping visuals of the film Lawrence of Arabia. “I was taken aback--was I on Earth or another planet?” he recalls. “Africa is the only place where I saw both the fury and the bounty of nature at the same time,” he said in an interaction with The Statesman.
The 2020s are proving to be the most troubled decade in recent history, with conflicts breaking out at the drop of a hat ~ not in far corners of the world, but in our immediate neighbourhood.
