Asia-Africa Growth Corridor

During the annual meeting of the Africa Development Bank at Gandhinagar in May 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the launch of India’s latest initiative in Africa, the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC), in partnership with Japan.

What is Asia-Africa Growth
Corridor (AAGC)?

• The AAGC is an attempt to create a “free and open Indo-Pacific region” by rediscovering ancient sea-routes and creating new sea corridors that will link the African continent with India and countries in South-Asia and South-East Asia.
• The project stakeholders hope the sea corridors will be “low-cost” and have “less carbon footprint” when compared to a land corridor.
• While India ....