The BRICS group of nations will be getting new family members. Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt will join the bloc from 1 January 2024. Isabel Nakirya reports that the expansion adds economic heft to BRICS, whose current members are China, the world’s second-largest economy, as well as Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa. It could also amplify its declared ambition to become a champion of the Global South.
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