Diamond institute to be set up in Botswana

A foreign trade institute in Uganda and a diamond centre in Botswana are amongst the 19 training institutes that India will set up across Africa in the next two years.

The two sides have finalised the location of the institutes ahead of India's second continent-level summit with Africa next year.

They are part of the commitment that followed the first India-Africa Forum Summit in 2008. The training institutes, envisaged in the 2008 Delhi Declaration, were unveiled in the joint action plan India and the African Union (AU) launched in March this year.

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