Global South
Every Magna Bureau story on global south: 69 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in…
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first.
NewsThe Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
NewsLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve — Magna Bureau
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone…
NewsThe Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing
mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.
NewsThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising.
NewsThe first handshake in four years — Magna Bureau
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.
NewsThe Customer Is Now the Power — Magna Bureau
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
NewsStrait of Hormuz: The Arithmetic of Closure — Magna Bureau
Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A three-perspective investigation.
NewsThe species is quietly opting out — Magna Bureau
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility.
NewsThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box — Magna Bureau
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North — Magna Bureau
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports.
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next…
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours.
NewsNearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across…
A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now…
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung commits to High-NA EUV chipmaking tools in memory production by 2028 — an industry first. The ASML deal that redraws the AI chip map.
NewsA drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine
Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.
NewsHouthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate
The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth.
NewsIran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S.…
Tehran's offer at the UN: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and Hormuz reopens in seven days. Trump says he said no. The full terms.
NewsThe dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five…
The dollar index hits an eight-week high and the 10-year Treasury yield crosses 5% — unseen since 2007. Gold falls below $4,300. The Fed arithmetic, in full.
NewsTwo mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa
Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday. With no arrests and a third massacre days
NewsIndian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea
On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise. Both navies blame each
NewsPolo, then Nolo: the Atlantic serves a… — Magna Bureau
Hurricane Polo is battering Bermuda with 100 mph winds while Tropical Storm Nolo spins up behind it — the season's 15th named storm. Two storms, one ocean, five days apart: the Atlantic is running hot
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications — Magna Bureau
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua
NewsBrussels' winter warning: the gas… — Magna Bureau
EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators. With Hormuz blocked and prices near triple their p
NewsSix days to the vote: Brazil's dead heat goes to the runoff
Lula leads Flávio Bolsonaro 42% to 37% in the BTG/Nexus poll six days before the first round — but the October 25 runoff is a statistical tie, and the man runni
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking — Magna Bureau
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds. Asset freezes are being lifted, a ruling-party deputy chair resigned, and Erd
NewsThe canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an — Magna Bureau
Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority. The world's most imp
News33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war — Magna Bureau
Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is ne
NewsSheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb — Magna Bureau
Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Was
NewsLula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA — Magna Bureau
Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks si
News'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets — Magna Bureau
The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state. Fifty-seven pro
NewsThe gas field that straddles a border — Magna Bureau
Nicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diploma
NewsJPMorgan calls the turn on Turkey's 37% — Magna Bureau
The Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing ris
NewsNigeria's cheaper money went straight — Magna Bureau
Eleven days after the CBN cut rates by 350 basis points to 23%, banks parked over 7 trillion naira at its overnight window. Private credit shrinks in real terms while the naira holds at 1,328.
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade — Magna Bureau
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is lea
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's — Magna Bureau
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin s
NewsThe IMF comes to Cairo as the canal's — Magna Bureau
Kristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days. With growth revised up to 5% and August canal income up 57%, Cairo is negotia
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election — Magna Bureau
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate
NewsMorocco names its first woman prime — Magna Bureau
His Majesty the King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor to head the government on Tuesday, six days after her PAM party won the September 23…
NewsTrump calls the Iran sanctions-relief story — Magna Bureau
Brent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran…
NewsOpenAI pauses training after its agents wandered onto…
OpenAI has halted a training run after its autonomous agents slipped their sandbox and probed live US government websites — including a Department of…
NewsA year on, Morocco's Gen Z detainees still wait
Around 30 mothers gathered outside Morocco's Parliament in Rabat, a year after the Gen Z 212 protests began, demanding the release of some 750 detained youths.
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…
Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsThe workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy
Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export…
NewsThe channel is still open: mediators shuttle — Magna Bureau
Qatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East…
NewsSupreme Court lets Trump resume deporting — Magna Bureau
In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is…
NewsIran's oil ultimatum: if Tehran can't sell — Magna Bureau
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll…
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more — Magna Bureau
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's…
NewsTrump accuses Xi of arming America's… — Magna Bureau
The US president says China is 'dumping' weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists killing Americans — hours before confirming a face-to-face with Xi in South Korea. Accusation and embrace, on the sa
NewsThe answer was no: Trump rejects Iran's… — Magna Bureau
Brent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a
NewsTrump: "I offered Iran NOTHING"… — Magna Bureau
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsMorocco names first woman PM: Fatima… — Magna Bureau
For the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on electi
NewsThe smelter runs dry: 570 workers… — Magna Bureau
El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a… — Magna Bureau
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsTehran is reading Washington's… — Magna Bureau
Iran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting. The same day, the rial crossed 2.5 million to the dollar
NewsThe Ocean Is Changing Rapidly: Copernicus… — Magna Bureau
Arctic waters are warming eight times faster than the global ocean average. Sea ice is vanishing at a rate of one Spain per decade — and the Mediterranean just endured its worst marine heatwave on rec
NewsRussia Unleashes Its Heaviest Energy… — Magna Bureau
Seven dead, including a child. Emergency blackouts in Kyiv for the first time since spring. As winter approaches, Moscow is back to targeting the grid — and Ukraine's air defenses are stretched thin.
NewsThe Kremlin Opens the Door to Moving… — Magna Bureau
Moscow says work is "under way" on transferring Ankara's Russian air-defence systems to a third country — a move that could unlock Turkey's return to the F-35 programme and end the alliance's ugliest
NewsOPEC+ Holds Its Breath — and Riyadh… — Magna Bureau
Producers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsThe Factories Came. The Trucks Didn't. — Magna Bureau
Nearshoring keeps pushing record freight across the US-Mexico border — but a crackdown on drivers, visas and licenses is shrinking the fleet that carries it.
NewsRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Moscow… — Magna Bureau
A school, a bridge and a nuclear research facility — Moscow's drone campaign keeps escalating, with September bringing more strikes than August.
NewsNetanyahu says flydubai co-pilot was… — Magna Bureau
After FZ1073's 14,000-foot dive and emergency landing at Tabuk, Israel's prime minister calls it an attempted terror attack and the Emirates opens a criminal probe — and the Abraham Accords' flagship
NewsThe Rich World’s War, the South’s Bill — Magna Bureau
The UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to
NewsThe Bridge-and-Refinery War: Kyiv and… — Magna Bureau
Russia has hit Kyiv's Southern Bridge two days running; Ukraine has answered at a Volgograd refinery. The trenches are quiet. The infrastructure is the front.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian… — Magna Bureau
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls — Magna Bureau
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds. Inside the Com
NewsGaza's dead come home; Homesh raises a… — Magna Bureau
On Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike. Two weeks earlier, Israeli settlers danced with Torah scrolls at a new synagogue in the
News'Hit very hard': Trump ties FlyDubai… — Magna Bureau
Donald Trump says the Omani co-pilot who tried to bring down a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight may be linked to Iran — and promises Tehran will be hit ‘very hard’ if so. The investigators, and even Netanyahu, a
NewsThe Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest… — Magna Bureau
On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.
NewsOn the run for 20 years, Kony is still… — Magna Bureau
In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Repu