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Lobbying

Nairobi-based business lobby issues pre-election manifesto

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Inaugural freight train on Nairobi-Naivasha line in 2019: Kenyan transport links are excellent by African standards.

East Africa

The key to Kenya’s industrial growth

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Staff of agricultural insurer Pula update details of a farmer in Kenya, 2021.

Digitalisation

Marketing digital microinsurance

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by Dirk Reinhard
Poor infrastructure makes accidents more likely – overturned truck in Uganda in late 2020.

Road safety

High death risk on African roads

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by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
DBL Group in Dhaka: “We will need additional skilled workers who can handle the advanced machines.”

DBL Group

“We are growing dynamically”

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by M. A. Jabbar
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Wild polio has been eradicated – immunisation campaign in Nigerian camp for internally displaced people.

Health care

Covid-19 vaccine rollout: upsides and downsides in Africa

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by Benjamin M. Kagina
Workers at a textile factory produce for Lidl in Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia

Workers have mixed feelings about Ethiopian textile sector

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by Michaela Fink
by Reimer Gronemeyer
Construction worker in Nepal.

Our view

Why life is safer in high-income countries

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by Hans Dembowski
Swimming pool of a well-protected condominium complex in Sao Paulo.

Gated communities

In Rio, the price of a safe home is very high

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by Thuany Rodrigues
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