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Vaccine hesitancy is spreading, but many people are proud of getting their jab.

Chronic diseases

Brazil’s health-care challenges

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by Thuany Rodrigues
Super-rich philanthropists are a tiny minority everywhere: Aliko Dangote, Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates at an event in New York City in 2019.

Inequality

A tale of rich and poor

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Too many people cannot read: newspaper vendor in Dar es Salaam in March 2021.

Adult literacy

Getting back on track

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
Endangered species: Himalayan snow leopard.

Biodiversity

Global warming and biodiversity loss mutually reinforcing

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by Lily Shrestha
by Bandana Shakya
Workers at the recycling facility.

Plastic

Balancing profits and staff welfare in Ivory Coast

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by Genesis Ehimegbe
by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
: Children in poor countries have a much lower chance of surviving cancer than children in rich countries: Young cancer patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cancer

Unaffordable treatment

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by Max Klein
by Jörg Schaaber

Online forum

#DalitLivesMatterNepal

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
A good cotton harvest might help.

Recession

Growing dependence on Benin’s informal sector

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by Karim Okanla
Celebrating the new constitution in May 1996: Nelson Mandela (then president), Frederik Willem de Klerk (deputy president) and Cyril Ramaphosa (chairman of the Constitutional Assembly).

Segregation

Revisiting South Africa’s segregationist past

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by Jakkie Cilliers
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