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Nigeria is not the only country affected by sickle-cell disease: awareness campaign in Uganda in 2022.

Health

The high cost of sickle cell disease

Nigeria is the country most affected by sickle-cell anaemia in the world. Unreliable tests and a lack of awareness surrounding the disease continue to put lives at risk.

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by Munyal Manunyi

Latest contributions

There have already been two landslides this year at Rubaya, the largest coltan mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, each claiming several hundred lives.

Mining

How to limit hazards of energy transition

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by Hans Dembowski
An African journalist flies a kite at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing.

Media

How China is expanding its media influence in Africa

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Soldiers wait for the funeral of Mali’s former defence minister, Sadio Camara, to begin. He died in an Islamist attack in Mali in April.

Conflict

Why military solutions keep failing in the Sahel

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by Olayinka Ajala
The Southeast Asian company Grab has grown from a start-up into a multinational technology company offering a “super-app” for ride-hailing, food delivery and digital payment services.

Technical infrastructure

How start-ups are plugging infrastructure gaps in the Global South

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by Wolfgang Krieger
Yoselyn Malamud Kessler is the CEO of the Peruvian food group Virú.

Peru

Innovation and diversification helped a Peruvian company go global

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by Yoselyn Malamud Kessler

Gender equality

Speaking out about violence against women in Cameroon

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by Glein Neneng
The Chinese-built Entebbe Expressway in Uganda.

Africa

China is a main character, but Africa needs to write the script

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

Start-ups

Why we need to tell different start-up stories

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Protest against funding cuts in German development aid in front of the Federal Chancellery in July 2026.

Development policy and the German public

Support for development aid growing again in Germany

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by Helge Zille
A patient in isolation at a treatment centre in the province of Ituri, in eastern DRC.

Health

Ebola is not the only emergency

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by Jasmin Behrends
by Stephanie Johanssen
Drone deliveries can strengthen healthcare systems.

Healthcare

In Malawi, funding cuts hold back medical help from above

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
View of the Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai, China.

Development regime

China’s rise from a very poor to a higher-middle income country

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by Stefan Dercon
by Hans Dembowski
Fanuel Leul is a digital artist

Artist of the month

Fanuel Leul is an Ethiopian digital artist

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by D+C / E+Z
Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

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by D+C / E+Z
Protests in the run-up to SpaceX’s initial public offering, which made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

Plutocracy

Another step towards Muskism

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by Hans Dembowski
The Makoko floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria.

Population growth

Why affordable housing remains out of reach in Nigeria

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by Sarafadeen Olalekan Oyeleke
Ghana’s foreign minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, at the opening of the Consultative Conference in Accra.

Slavery

Humanity’s gravest crime: “Recognition creates responsibility”

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by Dasmani Laary
Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov’s “Nord” yacht passed through the Strait of Hormuz in April 2026. Picture taken in the Eastern Bosphorus Strait in 2022.

Power and wealth

The oligarchs’ world is here. What can we do about it?

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by David Lingelbach
by Valentina Rodríguez Guerra
The “Road to Africa” project is testing the infrastructure for e-mobility in Africa by undertaking journeys through several countries.

E-mobility

Powering Africa’s trade: The promise of electric corridors

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by Kenny Suze
Will the UN Sustainable Development Goals be abandoned after 2030? Their future is uncertain.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Four future scenarios for the 2030 Agenda

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by Johannes Kummerow
by Jörn Geißelmann
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke at a protest in New Delhi in June.

Political satire

Why young Indians are proud to call themselves cockroaches

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by Roli Mahajan
Friedrich Merz and Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference in Jerusalem in December 2025.

Israel/Palestine

A distorted idea of the “reason of state”

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by Hans Dembowski
Good repairability can significantly extend the lifespan of a smartphone.

Technology

Why “fair” smartphones should become the new standard

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by Viktor Schödwell
The coaching staff of the Tanzanian men’s national team.

International football

“The first thought is: We need a man for this.”

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by Carolin Braun
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
A view of Singapore’s Central Business District, which supplies large parts of Southeast Asia with capital.

Start-up funding

“Capital is not neutral”

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by Jennifer Ho
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Without press freedom, darkness prevails: Streetlights have been turned off in Cairo during an effort to save energy in March.

Press freedom

What it means to be a journalist in President Sisi’s Egypt

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by Mostafa Nabil
Romita Ghosh, founder of MAAP (Malnutrition Assessment and Action Plan).

India

Romita Ghosh uses AI to fight malnutrition

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by Romita Ghosh
by Roli Mahajan
Pre-school education is essential to ensure that children can keep up in primary school.

Literacy

Better early childhood education for Zambia’s future

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by Diana Sakala
Ultra fans of Al Ahly protest against the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo in September 2011.

Football stories

Egypt’s Ultras as part of the revolution

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by Marius Moniak
Supporters of Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar during a march to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian revolution in Budapest in 2025.

Democracy Index

The path to autocracy is reversible

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by Marius Moniak

Contributors

by Achim Steiner
In a time of disruption, we still have prospects
by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
Mexico’s first female president
by Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola
A powerful role model for African girls
by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Why India and China are realigning their relations
by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
Whose development?
by Roli Mahajan
Why young Indians are proud to call themselves cockroaches
by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
Financing health systems for informal workers
by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
China is a main character, but Africa needs to write the script
by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
There are very few educational opportunities for refugees in Lebanon
by Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson
The internet is crucial
by Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Need for government advertising makes media vulnerable
by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
A growing appeal for authoritarian rule
by Samir Abi
African responsibility for climate justice
by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
Why many Africans must rely on informal health care
by Svenja Schulze
Svenja Schulze
Women, climate and chocolate
by Praveen Jha
US tariffs will aggravate economic crises in the Global South
by Boro Baski
Boro Baski
Why some Indian farmers are backing away from rice cultivation
by André de Mello e Souza
Trump’s vision to reclaim the “US backyard”
by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Ideas to reform debt policy
by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
How China is expanding its media influence in Africa
by Marva Khan
Marva Khan
Tangible action needed in Pakistan
by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Giving voice to the voiceless
by Henning Melber
Justice after genocide
by Imran Mukhtar
Can India withhold Pakistan’s water?
by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
What G7 should do in response to sovereign debt crises
by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
Many crops are neglected in spite of being vitally important
by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Promoting pluralistic discourse
by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
The ecosystem of hate
by David Mfitumukiza
David Mfitumukiza
Pressure on wildlife in Uganda

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