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Staatszerfall, fragile Staaten

Gaza City on 3 November 2025.

War

When I left Gaza City, I left my heart beneath the rubble

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by Ansam Al-Kitaa
Students being taught inside a half-collapsed building at Shuhada-Alwahdah School in Ibb province, Yemen.

Education

Overcrowded classrooms, outdoor lessons or no school at all

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by Abdulrahman Al-Humaidi
Htoo Myat Khin worked as a tour guide in Myanmar.

Migration to Germany

A nurse in Germany: “Support in the host country is important”

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by Htoo Myat Khin
Instead of going to school, young women are forced by the Taliban to stay at home.

Afghanistan

Where women are absent

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by Hila Limar
Dictatorial dynasty: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega with his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo.

Governance

Coups in slow motion

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by Christopher A. Martínez
by Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa
War forced Altuma and her nine children to flee their home in Khartoum, displacing them multiple times. Now in the city of Gedaref, they face the challenge of living in temporary housing with limited protection from weather conditions.

Famine

A preventable disaster

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by Eatizaz Yousif
by Corina Pfitzner
Satellite image from Planet Labs taken on 25 March in the Nasir district of Upper Nile State, South Sudan. It shows where airstrikes by government forces have destroyed civilian infrastructure.

South Sudan

Renewed conflict is jeopardising South Sudan’s peace process

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by Parach Mach
"Golf", by Khalid Albaih.

Cartoons

“Challenge the history that our new-age pharaohs will try to write”

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by Khalid Albaih
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Without raw materials from the DRC, many of us would not have a smartphone.

Resource conflict

No Congo, no phone

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
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