India’s key Indian Ocean Region partner Tanzania elevated
its strategic partnership with New Delhi during the state visit by its
President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The two sides inked six pacts to boost
cooperation in several key areas and agreed on a five-year roadmap to
significantly expand defence engagement. India is discussing trade in local
currencies with Tanzania and this will make it first African country to have
trade with India in local currencies. Meanwhile politics in Indian Ocean Island
state of Madagascar turned murky last week with former Madagascar president
Marc Ravalomanana claiming that he had sustained a leg injury when police and
soldiers fired teargas to disperse a gathering of his supporters. In Mozambique
the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of
US$ 1.5 million (JP¥ 200 million) from the Government of Japan to provide
life-saving assistance to 50,000 people in northern Mozambique. Japan has
described Mozambique as a key partner in the Indo-Pacific region.
India, Tanzania elevate ties to
strategic partnership; agree on 5-yr roadmap for defence cooperation
The Indian Express | 10th October 2023
India and Tanzania on Monday elevated their ties to the
level of strategic partnership, inked six pacts to boost cooperation in several
key areas and agreed on a five-year roadmap to significantly expand defence
engagement at talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tanzanian
President Samia Suluhu Hassan. In his media statement after the talks, Modi
said both sides are also working on an agreement to increase trade in local
currencies, and described Tanzania as a “valued partner” in the Indo-Pacific.
The prime minister said steps are being taken to adopt the success story of UPI
in Tanzania and that both sides will continue to explore new opportunities to
realise the full potential of the economic cooperation.
India discussing local currency
trade with Tanzania
Reuters | 9th October 2023
India is discussing trade in local currencies with Tanzania,
a foreign ministry official said on Monday adding that New Delhi has pushed for
trade in rupees. Tanzania has also sought additional lines of credit from India
in defence and other sectors, above the $1.1 billion offered by India
previously, Dammu Ravi, a secretary at the foreign ministry, told reporters at
a briefing on the visit of Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan to India.
Madagascar presidential candidate
injured after opposition rally teargassed
Reuters | 7th October 2023
Former Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana said he had
sustained a leg injury on Saturday when police and soldiers fired teargas to
disperse a gathering of his supporters and those of other candidates
challenging the incumbent president. The Indian Ocean Island is hoping for its
third peaceful election since the upheaval of 2009 when incumbent president
Andry Rajoelina ousted Ravalomanana in a coup.
Japan helps violence-affected
people in northern Mozambique
Club of Mozambique | 6th October 2023
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a
contribution of US$ 1.5 million (JP¥ 200 million) from the Government of Japan
to provide life-saving assistance to 50,000 people in northern Mozambique.
Thanks to Japan’s contribution, WFP will provide rice and canned fish to people
affected by the conflict at a critical time when over 3.3 million people are
facing acute food insecurity in Mozambique, according to the latest Integrated
Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). “Mozambique has been Japan’s crucial
partner within a strategic plan of Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) as Japan’s
Prime Minister, Kishida Fumio, expressed in a visit to the country in May this
year,” says Kimura Hajime, Ambassador of Japan to Mozambique. “This new food
assistance, with a close partnership with WFP, reflects our strong commitment
to people in Mozambique and our friendship.”
Maghrib Minute: Oman’s Foreign
Minister, UN Envoy review situations in Yemen
Times of Oman | 4th October 2023
Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Hamad Al Busaidi has received
in Muscat Hans Grundberg, UN Special Envoy to Yemen. During the meeting, the
two sides reviewed the situations in Yemen and the efforts exerted to reach a
peaceful solution that serves the Yemeni people and establishes security and
stability.
