The rest of the continent is looking to South Africa to push for shared value from BRICS

In the age of Twitter, BRICS, or the grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has produced a 102-paragraph-long Johannesburg Declaration, one of the longest in recent years. This implies that either this important multilateral grouping has a lot to say about the state of the world or it needs to hire a sharp editor

Leaders from the BRICS bloc of emerging economies share a "positive outlook" on Argentina's embattled economy, President Mauricio Macri has said

The invitation to the leaders of 22 emerging and developing countries, including 19 from Africa, made the just concluded BRICS summit in Johannesburg an even more important platform to demonstrate that the developing world and emerging economies as a whole, along with many developed economies, are strongly opposed to the Donald Trump administration's trade protectionist policies and punitive tariffs on imports

The bloc is helping drive what could be the first period of sustained movement towards greater global income equality in two centuries

The inclusion of the African continent in future plans of the Brics Group, appears as one of the main results of the 10th Summit of that entity held in the South African city of Johannesburg