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Ramaphosa’s union struggles could determine rebound

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SOUTH AFRICA

This followed two days after Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which offered an honest assessment of the steep deterioration in the…

South-South cooperation has a long way to go

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INTERNATIONAL

Foreign development assistance from and to countries in the ‘Global South’ aims to disrupt not only the established direction of aid flows from the northern to the southern…

Pacific Islands will resist Chinese influence

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CHINA

By many metrics, this influence remains significantly less than that of Australia and New Zealand. However, the Solomon Islands’ conclusion of a security agreement with Beijing in…

South Africa’s Eskom will weigh on economic rebound

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SOUTH AFRICA

Capacity constraints across Eskom’s power stations have resulted in sustained rotational load shedding (power outages) in recent weeks, while its debt and liquidity issues risk…

Policy is key to managing existential risk of AI

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INT

A particularly sensitive strand of this debate focuses on ‘existential’ risks. This concern was voiced in a terse but influential recent statement by Center for AI Safety (CAIS)…

Elections will weigh on Ivory Coast’s reform momentum

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IVORY COAST

Ivorian economic fragility.

Tough South Africa budget may keep downgrade at bay

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SOUTH AFRICA

The budget framework presented on February 20 provided a record 69-billion-rand (5-billion-dollar) rescue package for ailing power utility Eskom over three years. Despite measures…

Reform of West African currency is some way off

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WEST AFRICA

West African franc.

Saudi-Emirati relations will be tense

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SAUDI ARABIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Current animosities are driven by competing economic plans and ambitions for regional leadership. Encouraged by a changing geopolitical environment, strong finances and solid…

EU carbon emissions trading faces an uncertain future

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EU

The EU's carbon trading system.