Author: BRICS+ Consulting Group

On 18 March 2026, Brent crude settled at $107.38 a barrel. Europe’s natural gas benchmark jumped 6% in a single trading day. In Colombo, Sri Lanka, schoolchildren stayed home, not because of a storm or a public holiday in the conventional sense, but because their government ran the numbers on

There is an old saying in trade: every disruption is somebody else’s opportunity. Right now, as two of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints face closure or active threat, that opportunity is sitting directly off the southern tip of Africa. The question is whether South Africa and the continent more

The Case for reclamation There is a version of what Senegal just did to Industries Chimiques du Sénégal that reads as a textbook African agency. A sovereign government, that is armed with audit findings and a democratic mandate, reclaims a strategic national asset from a foreign conglomerate that allegedly bled

There is a particular kind of corporate irony in watching a German luxury automaker and a Chinese mass-market challenger circle the same factory floor in a South African port city not out of ambition, but out of mutual necessity. The reported talks between Mercedes-Benz and Great Wall Motor over sharing

There is something quietly tragic about a country that watched its own greatness and then watched it recede, barrel by barrel, into the Atlantic. Angola was once the undisputed deepwater champion of the African continent , a petro-state whose geological fortune seemed, for a moment, inexhaustible. Today, that crown sits

Let me tell you something about Iran that Washington never quite learns. Iranians have been negotiating with empires for three thousand years. The Achaemenids, the Greeks, the Arabs, the Mongols, the British and every single one of them, at some point, declared they had broken Iran. Every single one of