Xi Jinping with Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi at the 2017 BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China. Welcome to Next Africa, a weekly newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. South Africa’s chairmanship of the BRICS club of nations has come at an opportune time. There’s fierce competition between the world’s powers for influence on the continent. Already the country has set out its stall. The ruling African National Congress wants the group to be expanded and relations between the BRICS nations and the African Continental Free Trade Area member states strengthened. President Cyril Ramaphosa said this week that other African nations will be invited to the summit he will host this year. Ramaphosa waves as he walks past Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, at a Group of 20 summit in Japan in 2019. That comes hot on the heels of US President Joe Biden’s African leaders summit in Washington, a high profile visit to Africa by German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and an August pledge of $30 billion for African development from Japan. While China remains Africa’s strongest development partner, it’s wary of the renewed push for influence by its […]
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