The US will add multiple oil tankers to an Iran-related sanctions list.

Fitch expects President Ramaphosa to remain in office despite South Africa establishing an impeachment committee in May 2026.

The State Council General Office issued guidance requiring provincial-level and directly administered municipal governments where private fund managers are registered to lead risk resolution, coordinating with the State Council securities regulator and other agencies. Local authorities must swiftly inventory exposures and adopt market-based, rule-of-law risk-resolution plans covering asset recovery, asset verification and distributions/returns, and avoid creating expectations of public-resource support. Risk handling should be conducted within local mechanisms with active cooperation from the securities regulator and its local offices, including enforcement and penalties. Where one ultimate controller oversees multiple private fund managers across regions, lead responsibility will, in principle, follow: headquarters registration location, core enterprise corporate income tax payment location, then senior management personal income tax payment location. The guidance explicitly forbids using private funds to improperly incur debt to resolve liabilities or to dispose of troubled companies, to prevent new risk points.