India’s Modi Visits Ghana en Route to BRICS Summit

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo by DAMIR SENCAR / AFP)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due in Ghana on Wednesday, the first Indian leader to visit the cocoa-rich country in three decades as the Asian nation competes with China and Russia for economic influence in Africa.

He is scheduled to hold bilateral trade and cooperation talks with Ghana’s President John Mahama, who has been in power since January.

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