What happened:
On January 30, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met the Foreign Ministers of Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Palestine and Comoros, along with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, to review bilateral ties and regional issues. Discussions covered trade, humanitarian assistance, capacity building, development cooperation, and ongoing conflicts in West Asia and Africa.
Why it matters:
The meetings underline India’s push to deepen engagement with the Arab world and Africa through dialogue, development partnerships, and diplomacy, ahead of the 2nd India–Arab Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, the first in a decade, to be hosted in New Delhi.