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Businesses in Mozambique need financial resources: harvesting plantation bananas in 2007.

Financial sector

A development bank for Mozambique

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by Katharina Braun
by Anna Luisa Paffhausen
A woman cooking at home in Cambodia’s Stung Treng District.

Health

Cooking stoves kill

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Slash-and-burn agriculture is common in southern Africa.

Agriculture

Fire farming

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by Thomas Kruchem
Ammunition on display at the arms fair in Aldershot, United Kingdom.

Armament

Many conflicts – many weapons

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Heavy rain in Lesotho: changing weather patterns will hurt agriculture.

Environment

Urgent need for action

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by Christoph Suess
Election assistant counting votes in Kabul.

News

In brief

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Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general, and Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s president, during the opening ceremony of the High-Level Meeting.

Expert opinion

Lasting relevance

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Argentinians storm the barricades in front of the Ministry of Justice in Buenos Aires, December 2001.

Argentina

Direct democracy

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by Sebastián Vargas
Women’s shadow councils lend their support to municipal councilwomen.

Gender

Women’s shadow councils in Palestine

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by Reham Alhelsi
by Petra Schöning
Traffic jam in Manila.

Editorial

All politics is local

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by Hans Dembowski
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