World Reframed

Indonesia’s President Prabowo says enforcement of a rules-based order requires a credible military. And for his country of 17,000 islands, that means a powerful navy. So Indonesia is building a unique form of sea power - fast, agile and potent.

Ethiopia just held elections. The result is expected to be a clear victory for the ruling Prosperity Party. But millions were unable to have their say. The problem for the country is that it has never resolved longstanding questions about how best to represent the different regions and groups which make up the modern nation. The election may take Ethiopia further from an answer.

Sebastian Marset was one of the world’s biggest crime bosses who taunted police while on the run by sending them videos, playing league football and commissioning a crazy piece of art. From fake passports, armoured cars, gang hits and chickens, this is his story.We’ll travel from Paraguay and Uruguay through Dubai and Greece and Bolivia to end up in a US high security jail. And it’s an insane journey.

South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa faces an impeachment hearing as a result of an extraordinary case involving up to $4 million in cash disappearing from his farm house and a subsequent unauthorised investigation to try to recover it. And the Sudanese businessman who claims to have spent Christmas buying buffalo that he never received.

World Reframed explores the death penalty. What do religions say about it, is it cheaper than locking criminals away for ever, what is the most humane way to kill a person and what’s the connection between an American elephant and the way modern electric systems work?Ismail Akwei and Duncan Hooper consider one of the most controversial questions ever asked. Share your opinions in the comments.

Author and journalist Peter Schwartzstein joins Bella Lack to explore how conflicts often attributed to religion, ethnic divisions or political divides in fact have a common thread - unsustainable pressures felt by communities as a result of drought and famine. As a new report lays bare the cost of a warming planet, World Reframed hears how climate change fuels war and war fuels climate change.

Ismail and Duncan take on one of the biggest questions of our time and enter the Jollof Wars. Ismail explains the scandals behind recent competitions, the differences between cooking in Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana and Gambia in the kitchen. And offers his top recipe tips. Dinner time will never be the same again.#worldreframed #jollofrice #globalsouth This video is compiled and edited by Global South World based on footage sourced from governments and public bodies as well as licensed from various news agencies. Translations may be supplied by the provider or created by GSW.

Several hundred years after the height of transatlantic slavery, African leaders believe they may finally be on a path towards justice.

At a recent African Union summit, reparations for the mass human trafficking, colonialism and apartheid were designated as a flagship priority of the Union. The move marks a significant moment in a long-running effort to coordinate Africa’s position on one of the gravest chapters in global history.

Ghana has been tasked with leading the development of a unified proposal. Situated on the West African coast, Ghana - like several neighbouring countries - became a major hub in the trafficking of enslaved Africans. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were forcibly taken from its shores and transported across the Atlantic in appalling conditions.

For decades, there was little international consensus about how to address this history. Many of the countries responsible sought to frame slavery as a closed chapter. Some African states prioritised other urgent post-independence challenges. Caribbean nations, whose populations include many descendants of enslaved Africans, developed their own approaches shaped by different political and economic realities.

Now, however, the African Union is attempting to bring together African states and the wider diaspora behind a common position.

The JF-17 Thunder built in Pakistan with Chinese technology saw action against India last year. That episode, which reportedly saw the Indian airforce soundly beaten, has prompted a surge in interest in the cut-price fighter jet. Capable of aerial combat as well as attacking targets on the ground, the plane is in demand from air forces across the Middle East and Africa looking to modernise their kit.

At the World Economic Forum, something unexpected happened.

African presidents, former heads of state, and global institutions didn’t gather to ask for more aid — they asked whether aid itself has become the problem.

This conversation had a name: The Accra Reset.

From the Congolese president’s call for economic sovereignty, to Nigeria’s vice president rejecting dependency, to blunt warnings from institutions that aid is shrinking, this episode examines a historic shift in Global South thinking — from gratitude to leverage, from dependency to coordination.

The question is no longer whether aid will end.
It’s whether the Global South will be ready when it does.

In this episode of World Reframed, Ismail Akwei explores:

• Why resource-rich countries remain aid-dependent

• How control of value chains determines real sovereignty

• Why fragmented economies stay vulnerable

• And whether the Global South can act together — before choices are made for it

This isn’t rebellion.
It’s reckoning.

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