By Dr. Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin, L.H.D. (Hon.) Updated at 2146 EAT on Saturday 21st November 2025 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — World leaders are in Johannesburg for the Group of 20 (G20) Leaders’ Summit, which has officially opened this Saturday, marking the first time the influential forum is being hosted on African soil. The milestone event…
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UN Secretary-General Remarks at the G20 Session on Sustainable Development & Energy Transition in Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Excellencies, I ask you please to take my words not as a briefing but as a deeply felt appeal. Our climate is at a breaking point. Unless we limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, spiraling disasters will devastate every economy. Current policies would take us over three degrees. That…
G20 leaders call for ‘comprehensive’ ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon
Left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says poverty and hunger the ‘product of political decisions’. Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies have called for “comprehensive” ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, while also stressing the need for cooperation on climate change, poverty reduction, and taxing the ultrarich. The economic forum met in…
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