China’s recent decision to ban foreign AI chips from all state-funded data centres marks a major turning point in the global technology landscape. The directive, which requires all projects receiving government support to use only domestically manufactured AI chips, represents one of Beijing’s most assertive efforts yet to eliminate foreign
Nigeria’s Senate recently advanced the Electric Vehicle Transition and Green Mobility Bill to its second reading. The most transformative element of this legislation is its industrial strategy: it aims not merely to encourage EV uptake, but to compel the establishment of a domestic manufacturing base. The bill, championed by Senator
A silent but significant change is occurring in Africa’s oil and gas logistics sector. By 2030, the continent is expected to contribute approximately 12% of the world’s new liquid storage capacity. This expansion is fueled by several factors: a fast-growing population, increasing industrialisation, and a corresponding rise in the consumption
Seeking opportunities amid crises, the international community is taking action to advance global governance and empower global leadership, said a Xinhua think tank report released on Thursday. Today’s world is undergoing an unprecedented stress test of its governance system, said the report titled "Jointly Building a New Model of Global
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