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Economic growth that is not sustainable widens the gap between rich and poor in Africa.

Poverty reduction

Economic growth is not a magic wand for Africa

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
Malawi’s president Lazarus Chakwera at the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, December 2022.

Malawi

Disillusionment after elections in Malawi

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by Rolf Drescher
Final exams in Nepal.

SDG4

Good education for everyone

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
To honour Gaddafi victims, this square in central Tripoli is called “Martyrs’ Square”.

Libya

Libya lapses into Gaddafi nostalgia

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by Moutaz Ali
Young people in Niger. The country has one of the youngest populations in the world.

Demographic dividend

Benefiting from falling numbers of children

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by Frank Swiaczny
by Sonja Haug
by Susanne Schmid
by Sabrina Gabel
Coders at an office of a Ghanaian logistics start-up in Accra, the country’s capital.

Labour market

Brain drain in Ghana's tech industry

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by Marian Burchardt
by Florian Stoll
Zambia depends on copper mining.

Zambia

New money helps bail out bankrupt state

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by Peter Mulenga
by Chibvalo Zombe
by Charles Chinanda

Zimbabwe

What statelessness means for people

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by Farai Shawn Matiashe
Sri Lanka is broke: protesters in Colombo in April 2022.

IMF

The role of the IMF in the global debt crisis

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by Kristina Rehbein
by Malina Stutz
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