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Results following the vote in the General Assembly on the resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity. Photo: UN Photo/Manuel Elías

Beyond “Africans sold Africans”: What Ghana’s UN slavery motion demands

Almost immediately after the vote, critics in Ghana and beyond have argued that Africans, having participated in the slave trade, cannot frame it as the gravest crime against…

US President Donald Trump said this week that the tariff is meant to address the trade imbalance between South Africa and the US. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/picture alliance)

MPs from around the world urge Trump to revoke order on SA

The group said the US president’s decision to suspend aid to South Africa was a regressive assault on the country’s sovereignty

Luis Arce, Bolivia’s president, speaks during a press conference at La Casa del Pueblo in La Paz, Bolivia, on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Marcelo Perez del Carpio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Divisions threaten Bolivia’s MAS and its legacy of left-wing transformation

This is the first instalment in a series of articles on lessons for the left, and focuses on the case of Bolivia

President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Brics: A conflicted but emerging new centre of global power?

We could yet witness the bloc emerge as a new power hub but only after a plethora of issues have been solved

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Malema: Brics+6 step in right direction to end West’s imperialist domination

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo must also be added to the Brics economic bloc

Brics countries have expressed commitment to collaborate on confronting global warming, with rapid urbanisation in the five member countries.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Argentina to become permanent members of Brics

Iran, which was favoured by the Russians, is said to have also received the nod from the Brazilians, but various sanctions are likely to be its stumbling block

Argentina takes home the title as the 2022 FIFA World Cup winners. Photo: Supplied

The M&G’s favourite World Cup moments

Our reporters choose their favourite memories from a frenetic few days in Qatar

Bad blood spilled over after Argentina beat The Netherlands on penalties.

Qatar World Cup: Damp fireworks yet to be lit

When all is said and done, how many indelible memories will the desert cough up?

Anger at Suarez’s cynical handball in the dying moments of the 2010 quarterfinal between Ghana and Uruguay persists.

Embers of history fire up Qatar World Cup

The quarterfinals are laced with legacy and meaning

With the exception of one or two hidings, games at this World Cup have been much closer than expected – with Saudi Arabia scooping one of the unlikely wins. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
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Minnows prove that there is no ‘I’ in team at the World Cup

With the exception of one or two hidings, games at this World Cup have been much closer than expected

Salis Abdul Samed (R) of Ghana argues with the referee during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group H match between Portugal and Ghana at Stadium 974 in Doha, Qatar on November 24, 2022. (Ercin Erturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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World Cup wrap: Added time, shock results and what to look forward to

The first round of games are done. Who stood out, who flopped and what to watch out for

Argentina’s forward Lionel Messi reacts during his team’s opening round 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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Messi saw a ghost – and he won’t be the first

The Saudis were superb, but the Argentinians got spooked by the hovering legacy of World Cup failures past

Players of Argentina lift in the air their captain Lionel Messi after winning the final of Copa America Brazil 2021 between Brazil and Argentina at Maracana Stadium on July 10, 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images)

2022 Fifa World Cup: What’s the deal in group C?

Argentina, one of the tournament’s favourites, have been dealt a kind draw, but they cannot allow their 2018 dressing room politics to resurface

Pink tide: Supporters of left-wing Chilean president Gabriel Boric celebrate after the results of the runoff presidential election in Santiago in 2021. (Mauro Pimentel/AFP)

A new current of hope surges across Latin America

Seven right-wing governments have been defeated, while Brazil is set to join the wave of liberation next month

A Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) is seen at Ribanceira Beach, Imbituba, Santa Catarina state, Brazil on July 09, 2019.  (Photo: EDUARDO VALENTE/AFP via Getty Images)

Whale makes unprecedented 10 000km journey from SA to Argentina

Scientists believe she travelled that far to find good food sources, which is a ‘worrying trend’

Agriculture in the country is experiencing a recovery season for its grain and oilseed production, although some areas may have quality problems

La Niña determines predictions for the oilseed and grains harvest

The weather remains topical across the Southern Hemisphere but has resulted in mixed fortunes

Denuded: The Amazonia rainforest in Brazil. The Amazon Basin absorbs large amounts of CO2 emissions. Photo: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

Reforestation boosts planet’s green lungs

A new study shows the past 20 years of forest regeneration and reforestation efforts globally have contributed to the restoration of carbon sinks

The Western Cape is by far the province that benefits most from Agoa trade. Photo: Mujahid Safodien/AFP

South Africa’s agricultural sector is likely to have an unusual period of three consecutive favourable seasons

But higher international commodity prices will keep input costs elevated for the livestock and poultry sector

A professional healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry an oxygen tank inside a temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible Covid-19 patients at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP)

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen…

Diego Maradona head coach of Mandiyú gestures during a match between River Plate and Mandiyú as part of Torneo Apertura 1994 on November 20, 1994 at Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by El Grafico/Getty Images)

The political life of Diego Maradona

The icon who died on 25 November 2020 was more than just the greatest footballer of all time. From Argentina to Palestine he represented the experiences of the outsider, the…