“India-Africa Summit: Global South can’t wait any longer for the West to fix the world”, First Post, May 18, 2026

“When the leaders of Africa and India meet for their fourth summit in Delhi on May 31, they will reckon that the world has changed considerably since they met for their first three summits in 2008, 2011 and 2015. That dramatic change, and their assessment of its implications, will be a major determining factor in deciding how India-Africa cooperation must be redesigned for the future.

The first 15 years of the 21st century witnessed the end of the US ‘unipolar moment’ and the world’s transition to a multipolar order. China’s rise, especially since 2008, became a reality. Other Asian, African, and Latin American powers showed their economic muscle and sought a greater say in world affairs. Plurilateral groupings such as the RIC, IBSA, BRICS and G20 sprang up. Consequently, India and Africa felt bold enough to “demand urgent and collective action to put in place more democratic global governance structures” that are equitable and inclusive, as the Delhi Declaration stated at the conclusion of the third summit in October 2015.

There were also great hopes that the world would show solidarity and cooperation in tackling climate change by providing greater technological and financial assistance to the developing world. The climate change conference, formally known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was to be hosted by France, and the Paris Agreement that followed the third summit in Delhi was to unleash an era of hope. Besides, the UN had defined in 2015 “the broader Agenda for Sustainable Development”, generating optimism that ample financing for the development of developing countries and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) would soon be made available……..”

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