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Dec 1, 2024 | 
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com | Fadhel Kaboub
I’m often asked whether BRICS is going to be the game-changer that will disrupt the current geopolitical hierarchy, dedollarize the system, and create a new multipolar word. My position has always been that we can’t dedollarize a system that hasn’t been structurally decolonized yet, and that no new multipolar world can be born without Africa and the rest of the Global South being repositioned away from the bottom of the global hierarchy and at the center of a New International Economic Order.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com | Fadhel Kaboub
We spent the last two weeks at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan at what was supposed to be The Climate Finance COP, but the United States and the rest of the Global North showed up empty handed with an intentional agenda of delaying, denying, distracting, blaming the victims, and greenwashing economic traps. In the end, COP29 was not about climate, it was about an economic and geopolitical hierarchy that is not supposed to be disturbed. Why?
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
globaljustice.org.uk | Fadhel Kaboub
By: Fadhel KaboubDate: 27 July 2024Campaigns: Climate, Debt, TradeThe Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr once said, in the context of the civil rights movement in the US, “I have no time for the tranquillising drug of gradualism”. He was a radical, not just in the political sense of the term but in the literal sense, meaning we need to go to the roots of the problem – that’s what ‘radical’ means.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com | Fadhel Kaboub
Happy Earth Week!Greetings from the belly of the beast! I’ve been in Washington DC over the last few days attending the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund the World Bank Group. Six months after the IMF-WBG meetings in Marrakesh, we are still struggling to get the conversation focused on what it takes to truly transform the international financial architecture and to decolonize the global economic system. Let me share a few reflections here.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com | Fadhel Kaboub
Greetings from Addis Ababa!I’m on my way back to Nairobi. I spent the last 3 days in Rome at a UN expert group meeting on SDG2 (Ending Hunger) at the FAO, in preparation for the 2024 High-Level Political Forum that will be help in July 2024.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com | Fadhel Kaboub
Greetings from Beirut, Lebanon!I spent the last few days at the 2024 Arab Forum on Sustainable Development (AFSD) held at the UN-ESCWA headquarters in Beirut. My main message was simple. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be achieved under the current neocolonial global economic architecture. Needless to say, that SDGs cannot be achieved in a country like Palestine with people living under brutal occupation and facing a genocide.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
africanthinker.com | Fadhel Kaboub
It is troubling that many African leaders who skipped the G77+China Summit in Uganda last week flocked to Rome this week to attend the Italy-Africa Summit. Summoned by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the grand Palazzo Madama, they were presented with the Mattei Plan for Africa. The operative word there is for Africa. As Moussa Faki Mahamat, chair of the African Union Commission, made clear to his credit, African leaders went to Rome unaware of the plan.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Fadhel Kaboub
analysisThe Mattei Plan was drawn up without any input from African leaders and is named after the controversial founder of Italy's fossil fuels major. It is troubling that many African leaders who skipped the G77+China Summit in Uganda last week flocked to Rome this week to attend the Italy-Africa Summit. Summoned by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the grand Palazzo Madama, they were presented with the Mattei Plan for Africa. The operative word there is for Africa.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
globaldiasporanews.com | Fadhel Kaboub
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
globalsouthperspectives.substack.com | Fadhel Kaboub
Greetings from Nairobi,I am troubled by the number of African presidents, prime ministers, and senior officials who skipped the G77+China South Summit in Kampala last week, but flocked to Rome this week when they were summoned by the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni to attend the Italy-Africa Summit to be presented with the Mattei Plan for Africa.
