Despite tensions, top diplomats from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies have agreed on a joint statement expressing ...

Consistent with the South African Presidency’s intent to draw attention and Group of 20 (G20) consideration to African policy ...

Prof Daniel D. Bradlow is Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria.

According to the U.K., the country's aim to become a "clean energy superpower" is just one of the nation's five missions. In ...

Each year they are joined by a number of invited "guests". While there are some countries, for example Spain and the Netherlands, that are considered "permanent" G20 guests, the full list of guests is ...

Where was the President to lead and ensure that the Budget was presented last week? Leadership of a coalition government matters, as does communication. This GNU is light on both.

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva urged G20 countries to prioritize sustainable public debt, rebuild fiscal buffers, and implement reforms for growth at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting.

Johannesburg, Feb 28 (PTI): Most countries need to put public debt on a sustainable path and rebuild fiscal buffers, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told ...

For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country ...

South Africa had hoped to make the G20 a platform for putting pressure on rich countries to do more to tackle climate change, to give more towards poorer countries' transitions to green energy and to ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South Africa voiced dismay on Thursday that Group of 20 talks it hosted on global economic issues ended without consensus, after top officials from several countries skipped ...

South Africa's central bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, said a number of recent G20 meetings had finished without agreement on a communique and that the fact that some countries were being ...