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South Africa Within the BRICS: Friend or Foe to the Rest of Africa?
South Africa’s inclusion within the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) poses the thought of how relations will be affected between South Africa and the rest of Africa. The 5th BRICS summit will definitely t...
Gordhan Positive as the BRICS Start to Look Like a Bloc
On Tuesday, which signified the start of the 5th (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) BRICS Summit in South Africa, finance ministers met to discuss the proposition of the “BRICS bank” to rival western financial ...
A Potential Concrete Decision on the BRICS Bank and China-Russia Relations at the 5th BRICS Summit
The global community stands with bated breath: the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summit has just commenced here in Durban, South Africa. An important outcome of summit is position of the BRICS on Syria. ...
Obama in Israel: A Setback for Palestinian Aspirations
President Obama’s visit to Israel and to Palestine (the West Bank occupied territory), hailed in Washington as a turning point in American-Israeli relations, did not have the same resonance with Palestinians. In fact, it ...
Brazil Violently Ousts Indigenous Village Ahead of World Cup
Brazilian riot police violently evicted a group of indigenous people from a former museum they had occupied in Rio de Janeiro to make way for 2014 World Cup construction. Baton-wielding police agents stormed the one-time Museum...
Bosco Ntaganda: No Coming Back
On one cold Parisian night, in the mid 1660s, the great French mathematician and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal jotted down a thought which, unwittingly done or not, would come to summarise well the principle infirmity be...
