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Street vendors in Zambia: The government wants to escape over-indebtedness with IMF and G20 support.

Governance

Debt situation is escalating in many developing countries

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Chancellor Olaf Scholz visiting German troops in Tillia, Niger.

Sahel region

Peace requires strategy

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by Simone Schnabel
by Antonia Witt
President Biden inspecting flood damages in Kentucky in August.

Global affairs

How Biden’s promise of America being back might come true

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by Hans Dembowski
Hindu supremacists like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi do not simply appeal to Hindu solidarity, they have created an unprecedented sense of unity in spite of their faith’s deep caste divisions.

Blog

Having an alternative makes a political order more dynamic

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by Hans Dembowski
It is not only Trump supporters’ speech that is uncivilised, their behaviour often is so too.

Blog

There is no democratic equality online

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by Hans Dembowski
Unveiling a statue of Nelson Mandela at Cape Town’s city hall in 2018: Helen Zille (left), premier of Western Cape Province, and Patricia de Lille, mayor.

Diverse society

White South Africans generally accept majority rule today

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by Roger Southall
Anti-Bolsonaro, pro-environment protesters in Rio de Janeiro in 2019.

Rules of governance

Demise of Brazil’s democracy would speed up climate crisis

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by André de Mello e Souza
“Flee” is an animated documentary film.

Culture Special

A man flees

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by Jane Escher
In spite of some recent agreements, the WTO does not seem revitalised: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, WTO director general during a press conference in Geneva in June.

International trade

The WTO has not collapsed, but it does look shaky

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
by Hans Dembowski
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