India has extended a line of credit of $20 million and a grant of $8 million to the southern African state of Botswana, a country often held up as a model of good governance in Africa and whose diamond resource is eyed by the world.

Indian Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari, who arrived in Gaborene Saturday on the last leg of his tri-nation African trip, held talks with his counterpart Momfati Merafhe before announced that a grant of $8 million for projects in the social sector as well as $20 million line of credit for development of infrastructure projects.