Ramaphosa Calls For Global Unity On Debt, Climate Challenges

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged nations to work together to tackle a multitude of challenges facing the global economy, highlighting rising debt and climate change impacts as burning issues.

He was giving a special address to the World Economic Forum WEF in Davos as head of state, but also in his capacity as the President of the G20.

He outlines South Africas focus as G20 President around the theme of solidarity, equality and sustainability, calling for collective efforts to rid the world of current conflicts causing untold pain and suffering to those affected.

President Ramaphosa painted a lamentable picture of how he viewed the world right now.

This, I believe is a time of rising geopolitical tensions, unilateralism, nationalism, protectionism, isolation, rising debt levels, particularly affecting poor countries in the world and also, importantly, the declining sense of a common purpose, yet this is a moment when we should be standing together.