Expert opinion: Fabricius on Obama’s $37bn kicker at Africa Summit

By Peter Fabricius for ISS Africa Expressions such as ‘historic,’ ‘turning point,’ ‘pivotal moment’ and the like are considerably overused in diplomatic discourse. So one must take with a large precautionary pinch of salt the gushing assessments by some Washington Africanists that United States President Barack Obama’s first US-Africa summit was the biggest milestone in … Read more

SA put in its BRICS pecking order place in Fortaleza

For South Africans, most of the excitement ended even before the BRICS Summit in Fortaleza began earlier this week. After the previous summit in Durban, hopes were high that the $100bn BRICS Development Bank would be headquartered in Johannesburg. The South Africans had done most of the work on putting the structure together, and as … Read more