{"id":38492,"date":"2023-12-06T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38492"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:03:36","slug":"india-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Kenya Bilateral Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in the News?<\/li>\n<li>India-Kenya Bilateral Relationship<\/li>\n<li>News Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India has extended a $250 million Line of Credit for modernisation of agriculture in Kenya.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>India-Kenya Bilateral Relationship<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India established the office of Commissioner for British East Africa resident in Nairobi in 1948.<\/li>\n<li>Following Kenyan independence in December 1963, a High Commission was established in Nairobi, capital of Kenya.<\/li>\n<li>India has had an Assistant High Commission in Mombasa, coastal city in southeastern Kenya.<\/li>\n<li>Vice President Dr. S Radhakrishnan visited Kenya in July 1956.<\/li>\n<li>The State visit of PM Narendra Modi to Kenya in 2016 gave a new impetus to bilateral partnership.<\/li>\n<li>Bilateral Trade:\n<ul>\n<li>An India-Kenya Trade Agreement was signed in 1981, under which both countries accorded Most Favored Nation status to each other.<\/li>\n<li>As a follow-up to the Agreement, the India-Kenya Joint Trade Committee (JTC) was set up at Ministerial level in 1983.<\/li>\n<li>A bilateral Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was signed in 1989.<\/li>\n<li>Revised DTAA was signed in July 2016 and came into force in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Exports:\n<ul>\n<li>In 2021, India exported $2.55B to Kenya.<\/li>\n<li>The main products that India exported to Kenya are Refined Petroleum ($504M), Packaged Medicaments ($253M), and Semi-Finished Iron ($149M).<\/li>\n<li>During the last 26 years the exports of India to Kenya have increased at an annualized rate of 9.46%, from $243M in 1995 to $2.55B in 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Imports:\n<ul>\n<li>In 2021, Kenya exported $107M to India.<\/li>\n<li>The main products that Kenya exported to India were Dried Legumes ($42.8M), Carbonates ($20.5M), and Tea ($11.7M).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Development Cooperation:\n<ul>\n<li>India offers development assistance to Kenya in the form of loans and credit.<\/li>\n<li>This includes a loan of Rs. 50 million to Government of Kenya in 1982 and Lines of Credit by EXIM Bank to Industrial Development Bank Capital Ltd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Social Ties:\n<ul>\n<li>About 80,000 to 100,000 people in Kenya are of Indian origin.<\/li>\n<li>This makes Kenya the African country with the largest Indian community after South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The Kenyan government in 2017, recognized the Indian descent as the 44th tribe in the country.<\/li>\n<li>India is the third largest source (other than neighbours) of inbound tourists to Kenya.<\/li>\n<li>There are about 3,500 Kenyan students currently studying in 50 Institutions throughout India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>News Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto is on a three-day state visit to India.<\/li>\n<li>India and Kenya looked to boost defence, maritime and connectivity ties as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with visiting President William Ruto.<\/li>\n<li>PM Modi announced a new $250 million line of credit to help the east African country improve its agriculture sector.<\/li>\n<li>The two countries also signed five agreements and issued a vision document for maritime cooperation in the Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>Looking to intensify defence cooperation, the leaders agreed to continue working towards expanding training exchanges, including deputation of Indian experts, in Kenyan defence institutions.<\/li>\n<li>PM Modi said both sides will carry out joint military exercises and will collaborate on counter-terror projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the meaning of Diplomacy?<\/h3>\n<p>Diplomacy is the art and science of maintaining peaceful relationships between nations, groups, or individuals.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What is the Horn of Africa?<\/h3>\n<p>The Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa. Located on the easternmost part of the African mainland, it is the fourth largest peninsula in the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/modi-meets-kenyan-president-william-ruto-dollar-250-million-loc-agri-sector-modernisation\/article67606983.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India provides $250 million Line of Credit to Kenya for agricultural modernisation<\/u><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/india-announces-250-million-agriculture-aid-to-boost-ties-with-kenya\/articleshow\/105766962.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>TOI<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India established the office of Commissioner for British East Africa resident in Nairobi in 1948.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}