IN AN international world order that is constantly undergoing changes of great significance – shaking the domineering Western ethos to its core – BRICS is increasingly proving to be a catalyst for the global south as it leads the reconfiguration of global affairs.
This week’s crucial meeting of the BRICS ministers of foreign affairs in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod was a statement of unmistakable intent to challenge the US-led Western hegemony.
The meeting started with a minute of silence for former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Iran’s former foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, who died in a helicopter crash alongside seven others last month.
The foreign ministers’ meeting is one of many events that
