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Rare earth mining site in Kachin State, Myanmar.

Rare earths

Myanmar: A hidden source of China’s most critical minerals

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by Seng Li
by Johanna Sydow
AI can boost participation, but it can also facilitate manipulation and threaten democracies.

Artificial Intelligence

The future is still ours to shape

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

Border conflict

This vital corridor has become deadly for truck drivers

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by Derrick Silimina
Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin in September.

International relations

Why India and China are realigning their relations

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Coal mine in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Decarbonisation

The fossil fuel reality behind the rhetoric of energy transition

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by Pedro Alarcón
Lesotho declared an unprecedented two-year “state of national disaster” in order to reorganise its economy.

International Relations

Africa does not flinch before Trump

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
President Donald Trump announced new tariff rates for more than a hundred countries on 2 April 2025 in Washington.

World trade

US tariffs will aggravate economic crises in the Global South

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by Praveen Jha

Energy supply

Zambia supports $ 50 billion funding pledge to expand energy access in Africa

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by Derrick Silimina
Textile workers protest in Dhaka, demanding payment of their wages before the Eid holidays.

Sustainable supply chains

“The law would be gutted before it even came into force”

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by Armin Paasch
by Leon Kirschgens
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