The 2025 BRICS summit is the seventeenth annual BRICS summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 6th –7th July 2025, hosted leaders from the expanded BRICS bloc—including South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed—to strengthen ties across the Global South. At the summit, African leaders emphasized the continent’s critical role in shaping BRICS priorities, calling for deeper collaboration on trade, infrastructure, green energy, and intra-African market gr