India-Africa Engagement: IAFS-IV and the Bilateral Tracks
India's marquee Africa event of 2026, the Fourth India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-IV) planned for New Delhi on 28-31 May under the theme IA SPIRIT, was postponed on 21 May over a public-health situation on the continent, and no new dates have been announced. The relationship has kept moving on other tracks instead. In August 2026 India and Morocco held their 7th Joint Commission and agreed to double trade within five years and study a preferential trade agreement; Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema on re-election; and India condemned an ambush on UN peacekeepers in South Sudan, invoking Security Council Resolution 2589. This card carries the summit's history and the bilateral and multilateral signals since August together.
- IAFS
- India-Africa Forum Summit
- African Union
- IA SPIRIT
- CDRI
- G20
- Africa CDC
- New Delhi
- Ghana
- India-Ghana MoUs
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