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Sub-Saharan Africa has suffered an alarming spate of military takeovers since 2020

India can play a pivotal role in global manufacturing post-pandemic, says Arun Kumar, former US Assistant Sec. of Commerce. He envisions a world where nations have learnt from the havoc wreaked by centralising manufacturing in China. His new book, The Global Trade Paradigm, explores how to rethink international business.

Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa’s deadliest inner-city fires Pathologists now face the grisly task of identifying dozens of charred bodies and some body parts that have been transported to several mortuaries across the city of Johannesburg

Aug. 25-31, 2023

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 24 to attend the 15th BRICS summit, an informal grouping of five major emerging nations: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Where were you when you heard that Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aircraft had crashed and he was presumed dead? For Ukraine watchers it was something of a surreal JFK moment. And, like the Zapruder tape, the video footage of the Russian mercenary group commander’s Embraer Legacy 600 private jet…

The body said it ‘strongly condemns the military takeover’ that resulted in the ouster of President Ali Bongo Ondimba.

Converted vehicle stopped in Nebraska with gigantic-horned Watusi bovine called Howdy Doody as passenger

Coups that have resurfaced in Africa after years of stability are being celebrated by some