Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (left) with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2018.
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There is increased demand to join BRICS in the emerging world order, partly as a countervailing power to “the west”.
The African continent is home to some of the world’s most multilingual societies.
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Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
The world turned upside down.
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Terms like ‘Third World’ and ‘developing nations’ have long fallen out of fashion.
People in motion in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Why your understanding of who migrates (and why) might be wrong.
The rise in extreme weather events dent into developing countries’ budget and raise their debt interest rates.
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This week’s summit for a “New Global Financing Pact” will look to secure some much-needed climate cash for developing countries, while ensuring their debt remains manageable.
Lula and Modi walking a new diplomatic path.
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Brazil and India are among the countries pointedly not taking sides over the war in Ukraine. But this is not the nonaligned movement of yesteryear.
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted the 14th BRICS Summit via video link in Beijing. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the summit.
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Geopolitics is forcing BRICS countries to balance respect for international law, self-determination, sovereignty and peaceful resolution of disputes with their friendly relations with Russia.
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An ‘unscheduled’ visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky certainly raised the stakes for the summit at a critical time in the war.
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We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
Bottled water corporations exploit surface water and aquifers, buy water at a very low cost and sell it for 150 to 1,000 times more than the same unit of municipal tap water.
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The bottled water industry can undermine progress of projects aimed at creating safe-water systems for all, by redirecting attention to a less reliable, less affordable option.
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In the Global South, opinions on the Ukraine war are mixed. One main reason for this: developing countries have more pressing issues to deal with.
Las Dhure refugee camp, Somalia.
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The treatment of Ukrainian refugees exposes a humanitarian double standard that has channelled vital funding away from equally deserving crises.
Comedians Seth Meyers (far right) and Amber Ruffin (right) spoofed the ‘White Saviour’ complex in a fake movie segment on the ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers.’
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White saviourism is simultaneously a state of mind and a concrete unequal power structure between the Global North and the Global South.
Supporters of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema wave during a rally in Mwanza.
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After years of censorship, opposition parties have to – all at once – rejoin public debates, reorganise and remotivate demoralised supporters.
Workers install solar panels for a floating photovoltaic solar plant in Germany in April 2022.
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Look for significant progress in 2023 in two key areas, writes a veteran of international climate policy.
Protesters interrupt a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — demanding that the government stop invading Indigenous land — during the opening ceremony of COP15, the UN conference on biodiversity, in Montréal, on Dec. 6, 2022.
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In order to meet its 2030 biodiversity targets, Canada is heavily relying on Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, which could do more harm than good for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
Letitia Wright in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
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Black Panther and its sequel are more than just good movies: they can be used as teaching tools.
Charities often promote the benefits of child sponsorship. However, the practice perpetuates damaging patterns of thinking.
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Child sponsorship is often billed as a significant way of improving children’s lives. However, sponsorship is based on narratives that fail to address the role of rich countries in global poverty.
Millions have lost their homes in flooding caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan this year that many experts have blamed on climate change.
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Does the Global North have a moral responsibility to protect and compensate those in the Global South that disproportionately bear the brunt of climate change devastation?
Action flick Wolf Warrior II is one of China’s most commercially successful films ever.
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China is seen as Africa’s saviour and friend in the film - which is still full of racist stereotypes.