Opinion

Leaders of the world's largest economies meet in Johannesburg on November 22 and 23 for the G20 summit, being held for the first time in Africa.

When G20 leaders touch down in Johannesburg this month, they will be greeted by a city scrubbed, patched, and polished.

Thousands of relatives have been waiting for closure since a 2006 peace deal ended a conflict in which more than 16,000 people were killed and 1,400 remain missing.

From translating thoughts into words to allowing paralysed people to walk, the field of neurotechnology has been quietly surging ahead.

Brazil is expected to reveal on Wednesday whether it has been successful in finding a middle ground when it wraps up two days of backroom consultations in Belem.