The Indian Ministry of External Affairs published on 25 October 2015 a fact sheet titled "India: Providing for Peace in Africa" by Ruchita Beri, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi.
India has contributed more troops to UN peacekeeping operations than any other country: nearly 185,000 to 48 UN peacekeeping operations worldwide. About 70 percent of these peacekeepers have served in an African peacekeeping operation.