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G20 finance meeting ends without consensus, communique

South Africa (SA) voiced dismay this Thursday that Group of 20 talks it hosted on global economic issues ended without consensus after top officials from several countries skipped it, and delegates remained far apart on issues like climate finance.

Poor indebted countries need collective relief African Leaders

Growing external debt burdens are crippling the world’s poorest countries, a group of former African leaders warned this Thursday as they pushed for a new programme of collective relief from private, bilateral and multilateral creditors.

SA urges G20 counterparts to engage over science, innovation

South Africa (SA), which is entrusted with some of the world’s richest biodiversity resources, has invited its G20 counterparts to engage on how to manage and sustain science and innovation.

SA Minister hails historic G20 Foreign Ministers meeting

South African (SA) International Relations and Co-operation Minister Ronald Lamola has hailed the G20 Foreign Affairs Ministers’ meeting as historic.

G20 leaders urged to promote diplomatic solutions to conflicts

South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged G20 leaders to promote diplomatic solutions to ongoing conflicts. These conflicts include among others those in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, the Middle East and Ukraine.

Norway fully behind SA’s G20 Presidency

Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister, Espen Barth Eide says Oslo is fully behind South Africa’s (SA) G20 Presidency.