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Ghanaian President John Mahama’s high-profile visit to London this week, designed to showcase Ghana as a premier destination for foreign investment, was overshadowed by controversy. Photo Jubilee House

Mahama’s UK visit overshadowed by controversy

At the centre of it is London mining investor INIHC’s arbitration battle over the billion-dollar Black Volta gold project

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer announces major UK investment push in South Africa ahead of G20

The United Kingdom will unlock R500 million private capital, expand tech start-up support and upgrade South Africa’s submarines

US President Donald Trump’s land-for-peace formula feeds into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchism. Photo: Dominick Reuter/Reuters

Europe’s dilemma: Standing by Ukraine as Trump courts Putin

Russia’s demand for Ukraine to surrender the free parts of Donbas is ‘equivalent to the US having to give up Florida’

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

The world’s year of elections simmers

Democracy’s march has been relentless this year as world leaders confront the will of the people

New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference, following his first cabinet meeting at Downing Street. (Photo by Claudia Greco-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Labour landslide: But Keir Starmer’s UK win is overshadowed by huge challenges

Labour faces the electorate’s expectations of transformative change amid economic hardship, with the populist Reform Party snapping at its heels

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised a “decade of national renewal” (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Labour tipped for historic win as UK voters go to the polls

If predictions are accurate, Rishi Sunak will on Friday visit head of state King Charles III to tender his resignation as prime minister

An  Israeli soldier sits on a tank before entering into the Gaza Strip on April 10, 2024 in Southern Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

US support for genocidal Israel increases isolation

Despite the numerous wars that have been perpetrated by the West since the ICC came into being, no Western leader has ever been indicted by the court

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo by Frank Augstein – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Pressure on Sunak is building after the UK local elections

The Tories are comforting themselves for their loss by arguing that historically every government during the mid-term suffers losses in local elections