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Promote innovative models from the Global South: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

Why does wiring money from Nigeria to Ghana take longer and cost more than physically driving it across borders?

Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and other weather extremes are making agriculture increasingly precarious, especially in the Global South.

China’s responses to the recently-concluded G20 Summit in New Delhi merits scrutiny given the tensions in bilateral relations, but also because it is a major regional and global player that has the ability to influence matters even in absentia. And it was the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping from…

Climate change has different impacts on men and women, especially in the Global South.

The planet is on fire, but almost all the firefighters have deserted. At the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 19 in New York, the leaders of four of the five permanent members of the Security Council – the UN’s most powerful executive body –…

Togo’s foreign minister wasn’t having any of it

External Affairs Minister Jaishankar held talks with UN secretary general Guterres and UNGA President Francis on India's G20 Presidency, reform of international financial institutions and India's advocacy for the Global South. He also discussed development partnership, millets and rice production, digital delivery and defense cooperation with Madagascar Foreign Minister Sylla.…

China is telling assembled world leaders at the United Nations that it considers itself part of the Global South

He said the issue today was the building up of a strong sense over the inequities of globalisation where countries saw their products, manufacturing and employment come under stress due to their markets being flooded by cheap goods - an indirect reference to the Chinese trade and economic policies

The leaders of China and Zambia have announced an upgrading of their ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, as the world’s second-largest economy forges deeper ties with the Global South