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Worker in a polyester sewing production line in China's Guizhou Province.

Occupational health

Toxic substances in the life cycle of clothing

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by Olga Speranskaya
Waste pickers deserve attention – informal landfill near Dakar, Senegal.

Multilateralism

Stemming the tide of plastic waste

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by Rabson Kondowe

Lobbying

Nairobi-based business lobby issues pre-election manifesto

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Inaugural freight train on Nairobi-Naivasha line in 2019: Kenyan transport links are excellent by African standards.

East Africa

The key to Kenya’s industrial growth

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Fewer people can afford “boda boda” rides on commercial motorcycles.

Inflation

Ugandan government sees inflation as external shock

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Garment workers in a factory in Dhaka.

Garments production

Clothing must get more value again

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Used-clothes container in Germany.

Used clothing

Nobody gains from cheap clothing

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by Thomas Fischer
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
DBL Group in Dhaka: “We will need additional skilled workers who can handle the advanced machines.”

DBL Group

“We are growing dynamically”

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by M. A. Jabbar
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Wheat harvest near Tbilisskaya, Russia

Ukraine war

To the benefit of the starving, hungry might be given less

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by Claudia Isabel Rittel
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