The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, addressed the academic and student community at Addis Ababa University, the oldest university in Ethiopia, today (October 6, 2017) before concluding his four-day State Visit to Djibouti and Ethiopia. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that cooperation in education has been the fulcrum of Indian engagement with Ethiopia. Indian academics comprise the largest and among the most valued expatriate teaching communities in Ethiopian universities. In India, Ethiopia has a long-distance running partner. Subsequently, he attended the banquet hosted in his honour by the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Dr Mulatu Teshome in the Presidential Palace in Addis Ababa.

Source: Ethiopian News October 06, 2017 08:48 UTC