Staff worker stands behinds national flags of Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India to tidy the flags ahead of a group photo during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province, Monday, September 4, 2017
INDONESIA has become a full member of Brics, Brazil, which holds the bloc’s presidency for this year, has announced.
Jakarta’s candidacy was endorsed by Brics leaders in August 2023, according to a statement by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry on Monday.
However, the world’s fourth-most populous nation opted to formally join the bloc only after the formation of its newly electedayd government last year.
ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE
