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What will Africa’s future be within BRICS?

By Romain Chanson

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Posted on June 5, 2023 09:33

South Africa, which holds the rotating presidency of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) group, wants to advance the continent’s interests.

Despite a knock at the door, no one seems to be home. The BRICS group says they are pleased to receive the applications of around 20 countries who wish to join this club of emerging economies, but the lucky ones have not yet been chosen.

BBC News

Ghana patients in danger as nurses head for NHS in UK - medics

By Naomi Grimley & Camilla Horrox, BBC News, Accra

The recruitment of nurses by high-income countries from poorer nations is "out of control", according to the head of one of the world's biggest nursing groups.

The comments come as the BBC finds evidence of how Ghana's health system is struggling due to the "brain-drain".

Many specialist nurses have left the West African country for better paid jobs overseas.

The New Humanitarian

EXCLUSIVE: GiveDirectly loses $900,000 in DRC mobile cash fraud

“These were people who had high starting levels of vulnerability (who) were told that they were going to receive a potentially life changing amount of money.”

Jacob Goldberg

BANGKOK
GiveDirectly, a leading distributor of cash aid, has suspended all its active operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where at least $900,000 was allegedly stolen by staff or former workers in a large-scale fraud that penetrated every department of the country office.

The New Humanitarian

WFP leadership in Ethiopia resigns amid aid diversion probe

The agency’s aid into Tigray has been suspended since an internal investigation – due to deliver its findings any day – was launched in May.

Obi Anyadike
Senior editor, Africa

JOHANNESBURG

The senior leadership of the World Food Programme in Ethiopia has resigned, shortly before the findings of a probe into the misappropriation of food aid in the country are due to be made public, according to several sources who witnessed the resignations.

FAZ Leserbrief

Unüberlegte und übereilte Rückgabe

faz.de

VORZEIGEDEMOKRATIE?
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Proteste und Tote in Senegal

VON CLAUDIA BRÖLL, KAPSTADT

Senegal gilt als friedlicher Staat und als Stabilitätsanker. Doch das Urteil gegen einen Oppositionsführer schürt jetzt Unruhen.

Salzburger Nachrichten

Kritische Rohstoffe: Experten gegen "Grünen Kolonialismus"

von APA

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

„African Futures“-Konferenz in Köln: Eine unverschämte Rede zur Eröffnung

von Christian Bos

france 24

Senegal deploys troops to capital as Dakar braces for more unrest

Army troops were deployed to parts of the Senegalese capital Dakar on Friday as the city braced for more unrest after a jail sentence for opposition leader Ousmane Sonko sparked one of the deadliest days of violence in the country's recent memory.

spiegel.de

Koloniale Haarpracht

Warum afrikanische Anwälte heute noch weißblonde Perücken tragen

Koloniales Erbe oder Statussymbol? Die Briten haben ihre Kolonien in Afrika vor 60 Jahren aufgegeben, doch geblieben sind: blonde Perücken in Gerichtssälen. Nun tobt ein Kulturkampf.

Aus Kenia und Uganda berichten Heiner Hoffmann, Asha Jaffar und Henry Wasswa