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German car manufacturers are making a difference in South Africa.

International trade

The Trump jolt

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by Hans Dembowski
To achieve the SDGs, good health care is needed – and it will require sufficient public funding: a Bangladeshi pharmacist.

Global governance

Taxes serve SDG achievement

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by Monika Hellstern
by Hans Dembowski
Big multinational corporations promote unhealthy eating and drinking habits in developing countries: sales stall in New Delhi.

Nutrition

Big Food causes suffering

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by Dagmar Wolf

Horn of Africa

30 years of guerrilla warfare

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by Diglel Fadi
The British coast guard vessel HMC Protector – pictured in the port of Catania in Sicily – supported Frontex operations in 2017.

Frontex

Securing EU borders

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by Oliver Harry Gerson
Pakistani soldiers parading in front of the tomb of independence leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi.

Autocratic governance

Decades of military rule

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by D+C / E+Z
In the reintegration programme “rebound” of World Vision, former child soldiers receive training to become carpenters.

Child soldiers

Jobs instead of arms

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by Dirk Bathe

Non-governmental organisations

Rising to a global health menace

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by Hans Dembowski
World Press Freedom Index 2017.

Press freedom

Controlled media

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by Ingy Salama
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