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Wealthy nations fuelled their industrial growth and urbanisation by burning fossil fuels. This was the biggest cause of climate change, which now affects every country in the world, even developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa which are responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Wealthy nations owe a…

South Africa took over the presidency of the G20 at the end of 2024. Since then the world has become a more complex, unpredictable and dangerous place. The most powerful state in the world, the US, seems intent on undermining the existing order that it created and on demonstrating its…

Prime minister to host more than a dozen countries over weekend as Europe tries to secure deal to end war

South Africa voiced dismay that Group of 20 (G20) talks it hosted on global economic issues ended without consensus, after top officials from several countries skipped it and delegates remained far apart on issues such as climate finance.

G20 meeting in South Africa addresses debt relief, climate change, and global economic resilience with notable absences and challenges.

Following seven rounds of balloting, 60-year-old diplomat Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected the sixth chair of the African Union Commission in February 2025. Politics professor Ulf Engel, who is the editor of the Yearbook on the African Union, explains the role and its challenges.

Anneliese Dodds warns it will be impossible to continue supporting Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan

The chancellor will be talking to European allies at the G20 on the importance of bolstering defence capabilities

European nations must ‘step up and do more on defence’ Rachel Reeves said after the UK pledged to raise defence spending.

PM travelling to Washington following his weekly Commons grilling after announcing dramatic increase in UK’s war chest

Top diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies gathered in South Africa on Thursday and Friday for meetings focused on a packed global agenda, but these were overshadowed by the absence of the US's secretary of state Marco Rubio.