G20 Summit on African Soil Continues Despite U.S. Boycott
20/11/2025When the G20 convenes in Johannesburg on 22–23 November 2025, it marks a historic moment: the first time the summit is held on African soil. Yet this milestone is clouded.
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South Africa’s Credit Rebound: What S&P’s Upgrade Signals for Global Investors
17/11/2025South Africa has emerged from nearly two decades of credit stagnation as S&P Global upgraded its long-term foreign-currency sovereign credit rating from BB- to BB, marking the first upgrade since.
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Inside the 2025 Climate Yearbook: Africa’s Rise in Global Funding
14/11/2025For decades, Africa has stood on the edge of the global climate-finance conversation, seen more as a vulnerable landscape than a central participant in shaping solutions. The Yearbook of Global.
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2025 Emissions Report: 1.5°C Target Slipping Away
05/11/2025Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the world’s promise to stabilise the climate is faltering. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in its Emissions Gap Report 2025:.
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UN Day
United Nations Day 2025: Advancing Africa’s Vision through Peace, Unity, and Global Partnerships
24/10/2025It was a warm October morning in Addis Ababa when a group of schoolchildren gathered at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) headquarters, their hands waving blue-and-white flags.
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Rewriting the African Playbook: The Rise of Reform-Driven Leadership
17/10/2025Around the world, 2025 is beginning to look like a turning point. Governments are under mounting pressure to deliver stability, growth, and good governance not by grand promises alone, but.
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UNGA80
Eighty Years of the UN: The Road Ahead from UNGA80
29/09/2025The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened against a backdrop of overlapping crises and institutional strain, a moment that asks not only whether the UN can still.
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Africa
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ECOWAS Currency: Paving the Way for Economic Integration in West Africa
11/03/2025The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to introduce the Eco, a unified currency designed to foster trade and economic integration among its 15 member countries. The.
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Africa’s Economic Growth Leading the Global South
24/02/2025The African Development Bank (AfDB) forecasted that in 2024, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies will hail from Africa, including nations like Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire, and Benin. This trajectory.
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South Africa Assumes G20 Presidency
22/11/2024South Africa has assumed the presidency of the G20, becoming the first African nation to lead the influential bloc of the world’s largest economies. “We will use this moment.
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