{"id":6351,"date":"2023-03-18T10:19:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T04:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:48:50","slug":"afindex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/afindex\/","title":{"rendered":"AFINDEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About AFINDEX:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>first Africa-India Field<\/strong> Training Exercise was held <strong>in Pune in March 2019<\/strong>. It saw participation from 20 African nations.<\/li>\n<li>The first India-Africa Defence Ministers Conclave was held on the sidelines of the DEFEXPO, 2020 in Lucknow.<\/li>\n<li>The exercise is <strong>divided into four phases<\/strong> in which trainers would be initially trained. This would be followed by a humanitarian mine action and a peace-keeping operations phase.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum use of indigenous equipment<\/strong> is being made during the exercise and new-generation equipment manufactured in India would be showcased during the exercise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To continue <strong>building upon initiatives<\/strong> taken to strengthen India-Africa relations, with a focus on <strong>enhancing peace and security<\/strong>, and creating opportunities to exchange ideas and perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>Learning from the African experience in cooperative security, management of security crises and conflicts, and promoting a collaborative approach in capacity enhancement of African armies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is DefExpo?<\/h3>\n<p>DefExpo is a flagship biennial event of the Ministry of Defence, showcasing the land, naval, air as well as homeland security systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-to-host-african-chiefs-conclave-second-africa-india-field-training-exercise\/article66631967.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India to host African Chiefs Conclave, second Africa-India field training exercise<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFINDEX aims to strengthen India-Africa relations, with a focus on enhancing peace and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","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=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}