Russia’s Policy in a Dynamic Africa: Searching for a Strategy

... diplomatic presence in Africa in order to maintain such contacts, with 51 embassies across the continent. India, for its part, relies on so-called developmental diplomacy, whereby Indian business and government structures primarily focus their efforts in Africa on the least developed economic sectors of medicine, healthcare, agriculture, and telecommunications. This approach is built around the idea of intensifying bilateral public diplomacy and turning the African population itself (or at least some part of it) into a source of information. This is why India has fewer representative ...