PM concludes successful 4 nation Africa visit

Prime Minister returned after completing a successful four African nation visit this morning. First up today Prime Minister will review the emerging situation in Jammu and Kashmir, in a high level meeting, which is likely to be attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, NSA AjitDoval and Finance Minsiter ArunJaitley .

Earlier, amid the expanding footprint of ISIS across the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that "preachers of hate and violence" are threatening the fabric of the society.  He asked the youth to build a counter narrative to extremist ideologies.Prime Minister was addressing the students at Nairobi University. He also emphasized that those giving shelter to terrorists and using them as political instruments must be condemned.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's four nation Africa visit is being considered as historic.PM visited, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 5-day visit to African nations was eventful.  In the first leg of his visit that was in Mozambique, PM Modi recalled the traditional ties between India and Mozambique dating back to the pre-colonial period, their shared suffering under colonial oppression and Independent India's strident support for Mozambique's independence.  Prime Minister held wide-ranging talks with Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on co-operation in economic, security, defence, energy, food security, health and sports spheres, besides regional and international issues. The leaders witnessed signing of 3 agreements in Maputo. A long term agreement for purchase of pulses from Mozambique, a MoU on drug demand reduction and prevention of illicit trafficking of drugs and the third one in the field of youth affairs and sports.  The MOU on pulses imports has set a target of doubling imports of pulses from Mozambique from 1 lakh tonnes in this fiscal to 2 lakh tonnes by 2020-21. It will facilitate farmers in Mozambique in producing more pulses, improve productivity and meet India's pulses requirement.  On the second leg of his 4 nation tour PM Modi visited South Africa. He dedicated his visit to father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. Modi called his first tour to South Africa as a visit to second home. He also relived the historic train journey till Petermartzburg station, the very same station where Mahatma Gandhi was pushed out as he had refused to vacate a first-class carriage reserved for whites only.  He also visited the Phoenix settlement, a place very closely associated with Gandhiji's stay in South Africa.  Prime Minister felt honoured during his visit to the Constitutional Hill and Nelson Mandela Foundation and paid his tributes to Madiba. Expressing his gratitude to the people and the Government of South Africa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said his visit to the nation was a 'TirthYatra' for him.  There were 4 important MoUs , including in tourism and information and communications that were finalized as the leaders sat across to take the diplomatic and trade relations to the next level.  On the third leg of his visit, Prime Minister modi visited Tanzania. PM Modi and Tanzanian President John Magufuli met and discussed the full spectrum of partnership between India and Tanzania with a focus on shaping an action oriented agenda of cooperation.  In a joint statement PM Modi said both India and Tanzania share their vision of nation building, development & industrialisation.  He termed India as a substantial economic partner of Tanzania with existing investments of around three billion dollars.  Both nations agreed to work closely to combat the twin threats of terrorism and climate change.  India and Tanzania signed 5 pacts in the fields of water supply system, water resource management, vocational training, small industries and visa waiver.  During his Tanzania visit, a special moment came, when Prime Minister Modi along with Tanzanian President Magufuli played the traditional drums, infusing new beats and a fresh rhythm into India-Tanzania ties.  During the 4th and final leg of his visit to Kenya, both the countries signed 7 agreements.  The key agreements included a revised double taxation avoidance agreement, an MoU on Defence Cooperation, an agreement on exemption of visa facilities for official and diplomatic passport holders, another MoU between Bureau of Indian standards and Bureau of Kenya standards and an MoU on national Housing policy development and management. India has extended two Lines of Credit to Kenya.  On the people to people front, PM Modi visited the University of Nairobi. PM Modi called on youth to stand up against extremist ideologies.