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Rwanda secures $1-billion funding deal with South Korea
By: Reuters 5th July 2024 Rwanda's Finance Ministry said on Friday that South Korea has awarded it $1-billion in concessionary loans to fund projects in several sectors... →
More than 136 000 displaced by spread of war in southeast Sudan, UN says
By: Reuters 4th July 2024 More than 136 000 people have fled Sudan's southeastern Sennar state since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began a series of attacks on... →
Modi is shoring up Russia ties as Putin deepens China embrace
By: Bloomberg 2nd July 2024 Worried by deepening China-Russia relations, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is heading to Moscow next week for talks with President Vladimir... →
South African govt, stakeholders seek further WTO support in citrus industry's battle with the EU
By: Marleny Arnoldi 26th June 2024 The South African government and industry organisations have requested that two panels be established at a meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body... →
More Asian nations want to join Putin, Xi in expanded BRICS
By: Bloomberg 21st June 2024 As Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Li Qiang wrapped up separate meetings in Southeast Asia this week, the two partners in the... →
Malaysia is planning to join Brics, Anwar says ahead of Li visit
By: Bloomberg 18th June 2024 Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that the Southeast Asian nation will join the Brics economic bloc, becoming the latest country to take... →
Ukraine struggles to court Global South ahead of Swiss summit
By: Bloomberg 14th June 2024 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stopped off in Switzerland on Thursday. He won’t be returning for a summit on Ukraine 48 hours later.... →
Rwanda says UN refugee agency lying in British asylum policy case
By: Reuters 12th June 2024 Rwanda said the UN refugee agency had lied when the organisation told a British court this week that asylum seekers sent to the East African... →
