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President Droupadi Murmu reached Angola connected Saturday (November 8, 2025) successful the first-leg of her six-day authorities sojourn to the African state followed by neighbouring Botswana.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has described the two-nation sojourn betwixt November 8-13 a portion of India's efforts to unfastened up caller avenues for collaboration and expanding concern with the 2 countries successful the African region.
This is the first-ever authorities sojourn by an Indian caput of authorities to these countries, arsenic per the MEA.
Ms. Murmu was received astatine the planetary airdrome successful the Angolan superior of Luanda by the country's Minister of External Relations Tete Antonio isolated from different elder officials from some the countries.
During the adjacent 3 days here, the President volition clasp high-level engagements, including bilateral talks with her Angolan counterpart Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco and besides be the 50th day celebrations of the African nation's independence.
The President is besides scheduled to code the Angolan parliament and interact with members of the Indian community.
"India and Angola bask precise adjacent ties of relationship and practice which person been increasing crossed sectors. We person a vibrant vigor concern with Angola," Sudhakar Dalela, Secretary (Economic Relations) successful the MEA, said astatine a property briefing connected Thursday.
The sojourn volition supply an accidental to reappraisal the full gamut of bilateral ties and to grow mutually beneficial practice successful sectors specified arsenic agriculture, health, energy, commercialized and investments, technology, infrastructure development, defence and people-to-people connections, helium said.
The Secretary besides said that the sojourn was "significant" adjacent arsenic the 2 countries are celebrating the 40th day of their diplomatic ties this year.
Ms. Murmu, connected November 11, volition commencement the 2nd limb of her sojourn and question to Botswana's superior Gaborone.
As portion of her engagements there, she volition conscionable her counterpart Duma Gideon Boko, code the National Assembly and be an lawsuit related to translocation of cheetahs to India arsenic portion of Project Cheetah.
"We are assured that the sojourn of Hon'ble Rashtrapatiji volition further fortify India's long-standing collaborative ties with Angola and Botswana, and unfastened up caller avenues for collaboration and expanding our partnership.”
"It is also, arsenic I said earlier, reflective of India's steadfast committedness to further fortify its multifaceted concern with the African continent," the Secretary had said.
Minister of State for Railways and Jal Shakti V Somanna and Lok Sabha MPs Prabhubhai Vasava and D K Aruna are accompanying the president connected this trip.
