Development and
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For farming communities in Uganda, failed seasons can quickly become debt crises.

Climate change

When failed harvests turn into debt in Uganda

For smallholder farmers in Uganda, drought can mean more than a lost harvest. Many have taken out loans to cultivate their fields and are struggling to repay them. Some are even forced into displacement.

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by Cinderella Ayebare

Latest contributions

A protester accuses China of transnational repression against people in the United Kingdom, in London in April.

Transnational repression

A global threat to human rights and their defenders

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by Philipp Frisch
Haitian-born Rayan Dieudonné performs the role of 9-year-old Rico.

Film

A child’s experience of exile

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
A fighter of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) stands in front of the Regional Academy of Education building in Kidal, northern Mali, in May. The building was severely damaged during fighting prior to the FLA’s capture of the city.

Conflicts and climate change

“The Sahel states have to make peace with their own peripheries”

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by Kamal Donko
by Marius Moniak
Artwork by Fabeha Monir.

Our view

We are living in a disaster movie

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Development assistance

Malawi’s health sector has seen good progress – now it’s falling apart

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
An anti-corruption demonstration in Abuja in 2016. Ten years on, the situation has not improved significantly.

Corruption

Protecting the people who know where the money went

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by Obongodu Paul Unanam
Fabeha Monir.

Artist of the month

Fabeha Monir is an independent photojournalist from Bangladesh

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by D+C / E+Z
On the Pacific island of Pele, in Vanuatu – which is repeatedly affected by climate crises – gravestones from a submerged cemetery have been washed ashore.

Migration

“The key is to invest earlier”

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by Amy Pope
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Chinese-made vehicles are waiting to be loaded onto ships for export in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China.

Statistics

China’s development in nine numbers

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by Lucia Deon
A child undergoing a blood test in the context of the major HIV outbreak in Ratodero, Pakistan, in 2019.

Children’s health

In Pakistan, some hospitals have become places of infection

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by Aqsa Younas
Tuareg on their camels in Niger.

Indigenous Peoples

Learning climate resilience from the Tuareg

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by Rachid Bouajila
The village of Pratab Nagar in Satkhira Province is one of the many places in Bangladesh severely affected by climate change, including rising water levels, erosion and salinisation.

Disaster management and preparedness

More than just survival

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by Md. Bodrud-Doza
A China-made truck for export to Africa is loaded onto a China-Africa shipping route at Yantai Port in Shandong Province.

Macroeconomics

How China’s export policy impacts the Global South

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by Wolfgang Krieger
Chinese thermal imaging cameras are exported worldwide and are increasingly used for surveillance as well.

Internet governance

State sovereignty and censorship

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by Isah Shafiq
The body of a Kenyan domestic worker who died under unclear circumstances in Saudi Arabia is carried out of a hearse in Kenya in 2023.

Migration

For many Kenyans, seeking work abroad still comes at a high price

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by Joseph Maina
In 2025, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Reem Alabali Radovan, visited the municipal groundwater source in Amman together with Jihad Al-Mahamid, Secretary-General of Jordan’s Ministry of Water and Irrigation.

International cooperation

An investment in water is an investment in security

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by Reem Alabali Radovan
The German broadcaster DW designed an app to circumvent digital censorship.

Good News

Kenya as a pioneer of clean energy and a German app designed to circumvent censorship

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by D+C / E+Z
Iranian journalist Hannah Kaviani participated in the Global Media Forum 2026 in Bonn.

Media

Independent journalism in the age of Big Tech and AI

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by Lucia Deon
Terminology relating to the start-up world can be confusing.

Glossary

Key terms to know when talking about start-ups

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by Sarah Heinz
KfW Development Bank finances German development projects abroad through loans and grants.

Germany

German development cooperation in facts and figures

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by D+C / E+Z

Economy

How Malawi’s forex crisis disrupts everyday life

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by Benson Kunchezera
Workers supervise the unloading of metro train cars in Bogota, after disembarking from China, in September 2025.

China in Latin America

An unexpected boost for democracy

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by Marcela Ibáñez
by Alain Schläpfer
Perceptions of China vary considerably around the world, ranging from positive attitudes to viewing it as an existential threat.

Our view

Growing presence, changing course

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by Jörg Döbereiner
Biclaire Shukrani trains young people in tailoring at the Kakuma refugee camp.

Refugees

How a tailor makes a difference where the aid system fails

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by Rey Bulambo
Union Street in the city of Vereeniging, south of Johannesburg.

South Africa

Africa’s largest economy is deindustrialising

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by Nathalie Bertrams
by Tristen Taylor

Drug trafficking

Fishermen pay the price for South Africa’s drug crackdown

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by Winile Ximba
The company Spiro has deployed over 80,000 electric motorcycles across several African countries. Other start-ups have been less successful.

Public infrastructure

Why impact start-ups tend to work best where they are needed least

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by Olumide Onitekun

Medicine shortage

Zambia’s health insurance dispute leaves patients stranded

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by Derrick Silimina
Mela for Her designes and manufactures reusable sanitary pads and menstrual underwear.

Ethiopia

“These menstrual health challenges require a market-based solution”

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by Kaleab Getaneh Zewelde
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

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by Munyal Manunyi

Contributors

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

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