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What next for the G20? Prospects for Transition Finance under Future Presidencies

Posted Dec 05, 2025| by ODI Global

As the G20 summit drew to a close in November 2025, many South Africans noted that their Presidency has been face with unprecedented obstructionism and public criticism by the largest G20 economy, the US – which refused to send an official delegation to the summit... Read More

Can Europe and Africa Mend Fences?

Posted on Dec 02, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Carnegie Europe

Africa’s rising global standing, symbolized by the AU’s G20 membership, highlights the continent’s readiness for a more balanced partnership with Europe. Despite the strategic importance of relations between the EU and the African Union, deep divisions remain between the blocs, notes Marta Martinelli in her... Read More

A Fair Share of Climate Finance? Assessing Quantity, Quality and Alignment with Gender Goals

Posted on Dec 03, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by ODI Global

Addressing the impacts of climate change requires raising and allocating significant financial resources. Since 1992 and the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed countries have been obliged to contribute climate finance, in recognition of their historic responsibility for climate change... Read More

The Illiberal World Order is Here

Posted on Dec 03, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Stabroek News

The US was not always consistent in upholding international law or supporting the United Nations and its multilateral networks of cooperation. From Greenland to the Panama Canal, however, the US has now become an engine of international disorder, joining the likes of Russia, with its... Read More

Women and Girls in Conflict and Displacement in Muslim Settings

Posted on Dec 02, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by University of Birmingham

The number of people displaced by conflict and climate has reached unprecedented levels, with many generated by and hosted in Muslim-majority countries, especially in the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel region. Violence is perpetrated by various actors including the state, police... Read More

War Without End - Russia’s Shadow Warfare

Posted on Dec 03, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Center for European Policy Analysis

The strategic resurgence of Russia’s intelligence operations is deeply rooted in Soviet ideology and earlier Imperial perspectives. Russia, cast eternally as a besieged fortress, believes it has no real allies. From the Russian perspective, true lasting peace with the West is impossible, as only temporary... Read More

Financing the Africa We Want? Reflections from the 2025 Ibrahim Governance Weekend

Posted on Dec 05, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Governance and Social Development Resource Centre

The 2025 Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW), an annual event organized by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, was held in Marrakech. In this article for the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC), Arol Dut notes that participants found that Africa’s economic sovereignty remains distant, constrained by... Read More