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Ethiopia Gains $261 Million IMF Support to Advance Stability and Development

Ethiopia has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This will, in effect, bring in $261 million in fresh financing, pending board approval. For Ethiopia, this is.

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South Africa Confronts Rising Pressure as U.S. Moves to Redraw AGOA Framework

The U.S. House of Representatives’ committee on trade signalled that it will take up a proposed three-year extension of AGOA, the landmark trade initiative that for over two decades provided.

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G20 Summit on African Soil Continues Despite U.S. Boycott

When 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

South 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

For 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

Ten 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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United Nations Day 2025: Advancing Africa’s Vision through Peace, Unity, and Global Partnerships

It 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

Around 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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Eighty Years of the UN: The Road Ahead from UNGA80

The 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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ECOWAS Currency: Paving the Way for Economic Integration in West Africa

The 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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