India and the countries along Africa’s Indian Ocean coast have a long history and cultural connectedness. As India and East African states increasingly engage at the political level and as partners in development, COVID-19 provides a clear opportunity for deepening ‘south-south’ cooperation and establishing Delhi as a leader in healthcare policy and practice, wrote Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy, Visiting Fellow at RSIS and Graham Sherbut, Doctoral Fellow at Stellenbosch University, in an analysis.

Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy is Visiting Fellow with the South Asia Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore; Graham Sherbut is Research Director, Frontline Group South Africa and doctoral fellow at Stellenbosch University. This is part of an RSIS Series.