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AI helps in the fight against marine litter.

Good News

Reduced under-five mortality and fight against marine litter

The two pieces of good news this month are about an underwater robot that removes litter from the sea and the succesful fight against under-five mortality.

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Village school in Mali: Primary education for all was one of the Millennium Development Goals.

Development assistance

EU scores high

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by Sipho Moyo
A private car – or at least a private motorbike: For millions of Chinese people this dream is becoming reality.

Trade and urbanisation

Growing transport threatens climate

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by Katja Dombrowski
German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the EU-Africa Summit in Brussels last year.

European policy

Unfinished business

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by Theresa Krinninger
The EU’s response to the Arab spring might have been more satisfying, had external policies concerning security, development and the promotion of democracy been better coordinated and more focussed: Libyan insurgents celebrating the fall of Gaddafi in 2011.

European Union

Challenged by complexity

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by Svea Koch
by Mark Furness

In brief

News of the week

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Ghana has become a middle-income country, as its per-capita income has grown more than three-fold since 1995.

Relevant reading

Moving targets

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by Niels Keijzer
by Christine Hackenesch
The NDB is supposed to fund infrastructure projects in the global south. In Malange, Angola, a Brazilian company is building a road.

Development finance

Hopes and illusions

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Agricultural training in Uganda: Smallholder farmers need more support, especially women.

Fight against hunger

NGO demands stronger G7 commitment

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by Katja Dombrowski

In brief

News of the week

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Brown algae, which are harvested in the fjords of Iceland, serve as a raw ­material for alternative fibres that may someday ­replace cotton.

Fibre raw materials

Alternatives to cotton

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by Marina Chahboune