NATO leaders left Ankara this week having pledged more money, more missiles, and more unity than at almost any summit in years. On paper, that’s a win for the alliance. Look closer, though, and the Ankara summit didn’t showcase NATO’s strength so much as expose its limits, and for the
South Africa’s fiscal referee has finally blown the whistle. On 7 July 2026, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana confirmed that National Treasury is temporarily withholding the July equitable share transfer, the largest unconditional grant local government receives, from Johannesburg and roughly 70 other municipalities. Reports place the exact count between 69
With just over two months to go before India hosts the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, the bloc’s most closely watched financial initiative is entering its final testing phase. BRICS Pay, the decentralised cross-border payment architecture designed to link national settlement systems such as India’s UPI, China’s CIPS, and