In brief

The security situation in the West Bank has recently deteriorated significantly. Israeli settlement policy is a contributory factor.

In efforts to reform international development financing, Europe would be well advised to adapt its conditions to reality and take a more differentiated approach.

Why it took so long for innovative treatments to make a difference in HIV positive people’s lives in South Africa

Islamist Taliban regime has effectively erased women from public life.

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

Brazil is plagued by devastating natural disasters. Environmental and climate protection is not progressing for various reasons, and the country’'s colonial legacy also plays a role.

The story of the skull of the resistant Chief Mkwawa is an example of the arbitrariness with which the colonisers treated their subjects – even decades after their death.

Researchers in the south-east African country have detected alarming resistance of pathogens to important tuberculosis drugs. Effective diagnostics are more important than ever.

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

The novel “Desertion” by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah is set in Zanzibar. It is a tale of resistance to social and cultural norms and of the power of love, interwoven in historical, political and cultural contexts.