Tag Archives: BRICS

  NEW DELHI | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged BRICS countries to firmly stand on the right side of history and strive to be a pioneer of our times. When addressing the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Xi noted that this year marks the 20th anniversary …

  NEW DELHI | Xinhua |  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday called on BRICS countries to strengthen unity among the Global South and play an active, stabilizing and positive role in global affairs, while putting forward five initiatives on greater BRICS cooperation. Xi made the remarks when attending the …

COMMENT | SITHEMBISO BHENGU | The rise of the Global South is reshaping the architecture of global power. What began in 2006 as a modest grouping of emerging economies, with South Africa officially joining in 2011, has grown into an 11-member grouping spanning four continents, with a growing circle of …

  NEW DELHI | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday called on BRICS countries to strengthen unity among the Global South and play an active, stabilizing and positive role in global affairs. In a speech when attending the second day of BRICS summit in New Delhi, Xi also …

  SPECIAL REPORT | Tanzania is courting investment in transport, logistics and technology as it seeks the next phase of growth. Lennox Yieke reports. At $90.14bn, Tanzania’s 2025 GDP is roughly 36% higher than the $66.07bn recorded in 2020 and nearly double the $47.41bn figure reported in 2015. The economy …

COMMENT | XINHUA |  The high-profile meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on last week set the course for the next stage of bilateral relations and underscored the two major countries’ commitment to advancing global governance reform in the right direction. Their in-depth, …

COMMENT | James Shikwati | African nations have since independence operated within a global system they did not participate in designing, one that often undermines their agency and development. The African nation-states continue to battle internal governance issues, corruption, and conflicts. The post Second World War liberal international order built on …

COMMENT | Charles Okello Ayai | This article is, in part, a response to Andrew Mwenda’s article titled “Time for Africa to wake up” in his column, The Last Word on February 14, 2025. In it, he makes what has become a popular exhortation by most who consider themselves Pan-African, namely, …

BEIJING, CHINA | Xinhua | China’s newly proposed Global Governance Initiative (GGI) has captured growing attention in recent weeks, with observers hailing it as Beijing’s latest and timely response to pressing global challenges and a call for building a fairer and more inclusive international system. First unveiled at the Shanghai …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  The virtual BRICS Summit held on Monday has never been more relevant as it came at a time of growing global uncertainties and an intensifying deficit in global governance. During the summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on BRICS countries, which stand at the forefront of the …