Africa’s Sovereignty Squeeze: When a Government Refuses the Money
Ghana walked away from a US$109 million American health deal rather than surrender its citizens' health data. The same week,...
June 22, 2026In-depth, primary-source analysis of the global stories that move emerging markets – Africa, Asia, Europe and North America – each decoded through a Latin American and Global South lens. The Rio Times reads the original documents and shows the math. This hub gathers our deep analysis of the world beyond Latin America; for our Latin America long-form work, see the In-Depth section.
Ghana walked away from a US$109 million American health deal rather than surrender its citizens' health data. The same week,...
June 22, 2026
Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the world's largest cross-border wealth hub, and the reasons explain where the money of...
June 20, 2026
Past the Fed market drama, the real US signal was a frozen labor market and a stalled housing sector. The...
June 19, 2026
A claimed Apple-Intel deal to build advanced chips in America is unconfirmed by either company. What the reshoring bet would...
June 19, 2026
Japan raised rates to a three-decade high, yet the yen barely moved. When a hiking central bank cannot lift its...
June 19, 2026
New Fed chair Kevin Warsh held rates but cut the statement to 130 words and dropped forward guidance. A central...
June 19, 2026
The European Central Bank raised rates for the first time since 2023, fighting inflation even as growth weakens. Inside a...
June 19, 2026
One global shock, opposite answers: the Philippines raised rates to fight inflation while China held them at record lows to...
June 19, 2026
From cocoa to fishing to finance, Africa is moving from price-taker to price-setter, coordinating across borders to keep more of...
June 19, 2026