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Author and academic Mariana Mazzucato also talks to Mehdi about Donald Trump’s 'destructive' industrial strategy and Keir Starmer’s failure to tackle 'barbaric' UK inequality.

Drop Site Daily: October 22, 2025

The figure was announced as part of broader plans to invest 2.23 trillion rand ($128 billion) in energy infrastructure by 2042.

Policymakers should accelerate implementation of Africa's free trade area, the secretary general of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat said.

Tightening global financial conditions negatively impacted more than a dozen African markets this year, a survey by South African bank Absa found.

South Africa’s International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola also said the “false narrative” of a genocide had been raised in the latest trade talks.

The Gulf has largely escaped the fallout from 'higher US tariffs and global trade restrictions,' the IMF's director for the Middle East and Central Asia said.

The museum, set to open in November, will explore 13.8 billion years of natural history, starting from the Big Bang to the evolution of life on Earth.

Non-oil sectors in the emirate have grown to represent 57% of its economy in recent years.