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Title: | India, Southern Africa and the Africa Fund |
Author: | Hiremath, J.R. |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Africa Quarterly |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 207-222 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa India |
Subjects: | foreign policy nonalignment Economics and Trade Development and Technology international relations |
Abstract: | The eighth summit of the Nonaligned Movement (NAM), held in September 1986 in Harare, set up a solidarity fund for southern Africa 'to provide emergency assistance as well as long-term assistance for infrastructural development to lessen dependence on South Africa'. The AFRICA Fund, an acronym for 'Action For Resisting Invasion, Colonialism and Apartheid', was the NAM's response to the particularly grave situation that prevailed in southern Africa at the time. The author, who was the special envoy of the Prime Minister of India to the AFRICA Fund from November 1989 to November 1991, describes the establishment of the Fund, the leading role played by Ambassador N. Krishnan (the first special envoy to be appointed by the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi), the operations of the Fund, and Indian assistance. The Fund's mandate was ended at the Jakarta summit of the Nonaligned Movement in September 1992. |