Delegates from across the globe arrived for the 15th BRICS Summit, taking place in Johannesburg from 22 to 24 August. As planes touched down, officials were met with flags, music and traditional performances.
Perhaps the real reason that Pandor did not repeat her earlier call on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine is that the original call on February 24 last year apparently angered Russia and President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The chief mediator of the African Union-led peace talks, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, hailed the agreement as ‘the beginning of a new dawn for Ethiopia, for the Horn of Africa and indeed the whole of Africa’.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has dismissed the notion that the Russian mercenary organisation Wagner is the only ‘evil’ actor instigating conflict and instability in Africa.