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When a family member joins an extremist group, the cattle are safe: herders near Mopti in 2019.

Security

Islamist extremists operate like typical insurgents

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by Lori-Anne Théroux-Bénoni
by Hans Dembowski
Flags in front of the UN headquarters in New York City.

Our View

Global challenges require global responses

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by Hans Dembowski
The medina (old town) of Meknès.

Culture Special

They did not belong anywhere

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by Dagmar Wolf
Inger Andersen, the executive director of UNEP, speaking at the agency’s headquarter in Nairobi.

Multilateralism

"The UN must adapt to global change"

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by David Mfitumukiza
David Mfitumukiza
by Jörg Döbereiner
by Hans Dembowski

Kenyan election

Suggestion to legalise industrial hemp

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by Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki
Healer procuring supplies for traditional medicinal use at a local market in the Nigerian city of Akure in August 2019.

Traditional medicine

Why many Africans must rely on informal health care

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by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
Older people have a right to a dignified life: a woman in Sogamoso, Colombia.

Demographic change

Older people’s rights are human rights

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by Dagmar Wolf
Election winners Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez.

Democracy

Colombians have voted for change

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
Hala trains to become a police officer in Syria.

Summer Special

Emancipation in Syria, both personal and political

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by Aviva Freudmann
Farmer hit by drought in Mali.

Multiple crisis

ECOWAS adopts climate strategy

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by Karim Okanla
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