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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 24, 2010
International Organizations
The G20’s Twenty Agendas
The G20 meetings in Toronto will be marked by competing agendas on global growth and financial regulations. This Backgrounder looks at the range of policy concerns.
December 15, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
The South African Roller Coaster
On December 10, President Jacob Zuma fired Nhlanhla Nene, the well regarded finance minister, and replaced him with the unknown and inexperienced David van Rooven. Though Zuma is not required by the …
December 24, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Jacob Zuma’s Hold on Power
Jacob Zuma’s political power is based on his support by the African National Congress’s political apparatus – often called Luthuli House, after the party’s headquarters building in Johannesburg. With…
March 7, 2016
Global Governance
Headed South: Jacob Zuma Leads South Africa toward the Precipice
—Johannesburg, March 6 South Africa is in the grips of its most serious economic and political crisis since 1994, when the country elected its first post-apartheid government under Nelson Mandela. T…
March 17, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s President Zuma in Trouble with His Party
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has often been accused of corruption. But, until recently his hold on the governing African National Congress (ANC), with its huge parliamentary majority, has ensu…
