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Development policy

Don’t overpromise and underdeliver

The global crisis in development cooperation will not be resolved by making exaggerated promises about what it is capable of achieving. Instead, the focus should be on improving people’s living conditions tangibly. Adding all kinds of secondary objectives often means that none of the goals can realistically be reached. Tightening resources are forcing projects to focus on more specific and narrow objectives.

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by Heiner Janus

by Tim Röthel

25.07.2025

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Propaganda

When autocrats cooperate against democracy

Autocracies work together worldwide to stay in power. They flood the public sphere with targeted disinformation in order to destroy democratic discourse and impose their own narrative on the world, as Anne Applebaum argues in her book “Autocracy, Inc.”.

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by Dagmar Wolf

24.07.2025

Investigative research

The profitable business of climate disinformation

In a world marked by increasingly frequent and extreme weather events, outright denial of global warming becomes less and less convincing. As a result, those who seek to undermine climate action have adapted their tactics. Today’s climate disinformation is a complex web that includes false information, harassment and AI-powered greenwashing posing significant challenges to climate action and public understanding.

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by Ava Lee

23.07.2025

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Protests in Kenya

“I am plagued by doubts about how we as a country can survive”

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by Shakira Wafula

22.07.2025

Public transport

Electric motorcycles are transforming urban transport in Uganda

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by Sheillah Abaho

21.07.2025

Press freedom

Why Libya is a “black hole” of information

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by Moutaz Ali

18.07.2025

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Digital artwork of a zebra with dripping stripes and red "blood" dripping from its mouth, set against an orange sun on a white background. Credit: Fred Martins; social media handle: @fredmartinx

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In the Digital Monthly Edition 7/2025

Why don’t we talk more about climate change?

Adaptation

Despite disaster, climate action is lacking

Pakistan has been heavily affected by extreme weather events in recent years. Experts urge policymakers to implement existing policies – and lament that Pakistanis have too little interest in climate policy.

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by Syed Muhammad Abubakar

27.06.2025

Heat

The vicious circle of inattention

South Sudan has had to close schools for the second year in a row as temperatures rose to 45 degrees Celsius. It takes such clearly visible consequences of climate change to make people in this crisis-ridden country aware of the problem.

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by Alba Nakuwa

25.06.2025

Reigniting climate action

The one thing that affects us all

The climate crisis continues to devastate communities. And yet it has largely disappeared from global political discourse, while people continue to live their lives as if it were a crisis we could solve with an app. How could this happen?

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by Abigael Kima

18.06.2025

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“Major challenges remain in Vietnam’s education sector, particularly in rural areas, where access to infrastructure, digital equipment and qualified teachers is limited. That said, the digital education revolution in Vietnam appears promising overall.”