Category: BRICS News

The Xinhua Institute, a think tank affiliated with Xinhua News Agency, on Thursday released a report titled "Jointly Building a New Model of Global Leadership — Work Together in Pursuit of a More Just and Rational Global Governance System" (https://english.news.cn/20251113/cfd1e7ca043545589e95d4bb7eba17da/c7fdaf62c1a6418e81e0ea13ef12e389.pdf) at the Global South Media and Think Tank Forum China-Africa

Over the last two decades, we have entered a profoundly different period in global history, the era of a multipolar world. The emergence of the BRICS grouping, which represents around 40% of the world’s population and GDP, is significant because, for the first time, it offers people from the Global

Since their adoption in 2012, the eight-point decision have become a defining instrument in Party reform and governance practice for the Communist Party of China. Introduced to curb chronic bureaucratic problems such as official privileges, lavish banquets, redundant paperwork, and inefficient meetings, the decisions embody a cultural and institutional shift

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) will lead a group of South African companies on an Outward Selling Mission (OSM) to Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from November 10 to 12. The initiative forms part of the implementation plan following the recent Joint Economic Commission between South

United States President Donald Trump has announced that no US government officials will attend the upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, accusing South Africa of “human rights abuses” and claiming that white Afrikaners are being “killed and slaughtered” and their farms “illegally confiscated”. Trump wrote on his Truth Social account: “It

The escalating conflict in Sudan, which began in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has metastasised from Khartoum into Darfur and other regions, resulting in mass civilian casualties and catastrophic displacement. This is far from generic wartime violence; it is what can

At this year’s Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, the tone around artificial intelligence and data infrastructure felt different. The conversation wasn’t about hype or next quarter’s returns. It was about building foundations for a digital future that could last decades. Investors, policymakers, and developers now see Saudi Arabia not simply

Ethiopia is intentionally using mega-projects, such as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), and forthcoming plans for a nuclear power plant, a vast Bishoftu airport, and a major Dangote-backed fertiliser complex, as a deliberate strategy to translate mere claims of national sovereignty into tangible geopolitical and economic influence. The GERD’s

When Kazakhstan quietly achieved the World Health Organisation’s goal of reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by 25%, as the first Central Asian nation to do so, global headlines have been quiet. One can only wonder if this is because this milestone signals something larger than public health success. It

Saudi Arabia’s manufacturing drive illustrates how strategic policy alignment between procurement, investment, and industrial innovation can rapidly build capacity in emerging economies. The country’s evolving industrial landscape offers valuable lessons for others across the Global South seeking to localise production, secure supply chains, and build technology-driven industries from within. Saudi