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AU and G20: membership will give Africa more say on global issues – if it speaks with one voice

AU and G20: membership will give Africa more say on global issues – if it speaks with one voice

AFTER seven years of advocating for full membership, the African Union (AU) will join the Group of 20 “most important industrialised and developing economies”. It becomes the second regional bloc to join the group after the 27-member European Union (EU). The G20 was established after the 1999 Asian financial crisis as an informal grouping of ministers of finance and central bank governors. It grew out of the G7, which was formed in 1975 to deal with another complex global financial and economic crisis. ULF ENGEL, Professor, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig Since 2008, the G20 has met at…
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SA’s 2nd attempt to withdraw from ICC

SA’s 2nd attempt to withdraw from ICC

CARIEN DU PLESSIS SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress will aim to repeal the country's membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC), President Cyril Ramaphosa said, the second time it has attempted to do so. The party's decision at a weekend meeting of its national executive committee came after the ICC issued an arrest warrant on March 17 against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. "The governing party, the African National Congress, has taken that decision that it is prudent that South Africa should pull out of the ICC, largely…
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