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Risk: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned against allowing the continent’s mineral wealth to be plundered. Photo: AU
2025 US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

The second scramble for Africa

It is urgent that Africa invests in adding value to its minerals. If it fails to seize this moment, it will be difficult to shake off its historical status as an exporter of…

  • Meshack Mboya
4 min read
BRICS SUMMIT

BRICS summit – a Kremlin trap for Guterres

The UN Secretary General’s presence is a demonstration of contempt for the victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

  • Kate Smith
5 min read
US ambassador Reuben Brigety. Photo: Twitter
ANC

Biden administration acknowledges damage done by Brigety claims

US diplomat Joy Basu said that Pretoria still needs to do more to convince congress to renew Agoa

  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
Nomvula Mokonyane. Photo by Kopano Tlape
ANC

Israeli embassy ‘arrogant and unwilling to engage’, says Nomvula Mokonyane 

The ANC deputy secretary general also insisted that the governing party was not ‘anti-Jew’

  • Lizeka Tandwa
6 min read
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
GAZA

Guterres deplores attacks on civilians in Israeli-Hamas war

The UN secretary-general also voiced alarm at the announcement of a total siege of the Gaza Strip, while all aide has been blocked

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
United Nations secretary general António Guterres. (Photo by Justin Lane- Pool/Getty Images)
2015 PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT

A new vision for global cooperation

Realising the UN secretary general’s agenda for more inclusive and effective multilateralism requires an orchestrated strategy

  • María Fernanda Espinosa
  • Danilo Türk
4 min read