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Global Report on the 2025 Food Crisis: The Terrifying Rise of Hunger 

The Global Report on Food Crises 2025 (GRFC 2025), issued by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) and the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), confronts us with this brutal truth: the world is not short of food. It is short of justice, political resolve, and collective conscience. We are not experiencing a food shortage. We are living through a humanitarian failure. This report does not merely present numbers. It bears witness to suffering and demands urgent global action.

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Growing Pains of BRICS: Expansion Tests Unity and Purpose

The recently convened BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in April 2025 failed to issue a joint statement on the bloc’s response to the United States’ protectionist trade policies under President Donald Trump. While the grouping has lofty ambitions to credibly represent the Global South, there are lingering doubts whether the organisation is wavering in establishing a unified direction and purpose with an expanded membership.

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Africa CEO Forum 2025 | Presidential Panel with President Ramaphosa,  Paul Kagame & More

At the 2025 Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, the air was thick not with celebration, but with reckoning. Africa, holding over 30% of the world’s mineral resources, remains plagued by weak trade integration, institutional failure, and structural dependency. Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani of Mauritania, Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal, and Tiémoko Meyliet Koné – Vice-President of Côte d’Ivoire – offered an unfiltered, brutally honest discussion on the real state of the continent.

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Tariffs, Inflation, and the Looming Recoil: Is the U.S. Economy Headed Toward a Storm?

Donald Trump was swept into office by voters frustrated with the price inflation of everyday necessities; rising cost of milk, bread, and eggs had become symbols of deepening economic strain. His campaign promise to rein in inflation, protect American workers, and bring manufacturing back to U.S. soil struck a chord with the middle class.

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Tensions Reignite: The Aftermath of Operation Sindoor

Muhammad Khalid Jamali, issued a provocative warning during a televised interview: Pakistan is prepared to use the “full spectrum of power, including nuclear,” should India attempt to either restrict water flows from the Indus system or carry out additional cross-border strikes. The statement raised alarm across global capitals, intensifying concerns about potential military escalation between two nuclear-armed neighbors.

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Rethinking the Purpose of Debt in Africa’s Development Vision

African countries often borrow with the broad aim of financing development, yet the actual application of debt proceeds frequently diverges from this intention. The historical record reveals a recurrent failure to convert debt into sustained economic productivity. This raises a fundamental question: Are African states borrowing for transformation, or simply borrowing to survive?

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Improving Monetary Policy Frameworks in Sub-Saharan Africa

Shallow financial sectors mean policy changes often fail to trickle down to ordinary people. Over 65% of Africans remain unbanked and outside the formal credit system . Dollarisation, especially in Zimbabwe, the DRC, and South Sudan, has corroded domestic monetary authority. In the DRC, over 90% of transactions are in US dollars . Weak data systems make real-time policy adjustments nearly impossible. In many countries, reliable inflation data arrives weeks or months late

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