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China is expected to become a high-income country soon: shops in Jianshui in Yunnan Province.

International cooperation

New partners, global goals

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by Luiz Ramalho
Learning at home depends on teachers' outreach and equipment: attending an online lesson in Seoul, South Korea.

Education

Disrupted schooling

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by Claudia Isabel Rittel
Demonstration against the financing of fossil fuels in France in 2019.

Private-sector banks

No money for coal

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by Katja Dombrowski
Child soldiers of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone.

Civil wars

Children in terrorist organisations

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by Dagmar Wolf
Due to the destruction of schools and the dramatic reduction in the number of teachers, a “lost generation” is growing up in Syria: school east of Idlib, destroyed by a Russian attack in March 2020.

Syria

Difficult reconstruction

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by Dagmar Wolf
President Emmerson Mnangagwa observes Covid-19 rules – but also uses them for less than benevolent purposes.

Governance

Suppressing dissenters during lockdown

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
Informal businesses are common in Kenya: knife sharpening service in Nairobi.

Dysfunctional policy

Under-performing ODA darling

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
A woman reports from a village planning group in Chad.

Participation

Valuable resource

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by Frank Bliss
Rural people protesting against their village being submerged because of Omkreswahr dam on the Narmada river in 2012.

Infrastructure projects

Paying the price for development

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by Korinna Horta
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