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Lebanon is the first country in the Middle East to abolish death penalty.

Good News

South Africa revokes exploration rights, Lebanon abolishes death penalty

South Africa’s Constitutional Court revokes exploration rights on the Wild Coast, and Lebanon is the first MENA coutry to abolish death penalty.

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For Shamsa Araweelo, it’s not enough to tell her story as an FGM survivor in only general terms.

Women’s rights

A rose to break the silence: Shamsa Araweelo campaigns against FGM

Shamsa Araweelo suffered genital mutilation at age six and then a violently abusive marriage as an adolescent. Today she speaks unsparingly on TikTok about what she experienced and campaigns to protect other girls from sharing her fate.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
The success of Malawi’s women’s national football team encourages investment in grassroots programmes for girls.

Education

How Malawi’s football success is opening doors for girls

Malawi’s women footballers have inspired a nation. Their success is encouraging girls to pursue their ambitions, while football programmes offer opportunities beyond sport.

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by Benson Kunchezera
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Malawi

Over half a million children are suffering from malnutrition

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Maths lesson at a rural Santal pre-education centre.

Childhood

Indian schools’ historical neglect of poor communities

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Providing nutritious food is still an important activity of the Santal pre-education centres of Ghosaldanga and Bishnubati.

West Bengal

Grassroots pre-school education in two Adivasi villages

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In der Hindukusch-Himalaya-Region schmelzen die Gletscher
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Global environment

Restoring the planet’s environmental health is indispensable

Coal mine in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Decarbonisation

The fossil fuel reality behind the rhetoric of energy transition

by Pedro Alarcón
Small-scale miners at a riverbed on the outskirts of Harare.

Mining

How Zimbabwe’s gold rush is poisoning water

by Tsitsi Bhobo

Human-wildlife conflicts

Coexistence, not conflict

by Lameck Masina
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Plattenladen im Kenyatta-Markt in Nairobi
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Culture Special

Art with a developmental connection - compiled for you by the D+C editorial team.

Scene from the music video for “Maandamano” by Bien and Breeder LW.

Music

Dancing under tear gas

by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Refugees continue to risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea.

Book

A prayer on the night before fleeing across the sea

by Dagmar Wolf
At an event in São Paulo in 2024, women commemorate the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888.

Novel

How brave women fight back against oppression

by Sinikka Soriya Dombrowski
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Kinder auf einem staatlichen Schulhof in Nigeria.
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Education

Around the world, access to education must be made easier and its quality has to improve

Young people are getting their information from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and WhatsApp.

Media literacy

How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news

by Kari Kivinen Eva-Maria Verfürth
Our author and a friend at their graduation ceremony at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Studying abroad

International degrees, national development

by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

Inclusion

This Malawian invention rewrites the rules for blind students

by Lameck Masina
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Eine Sammlung von Geldscheinen und Münzen.
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Fiscal space

In view of multiple crises, state agencies must stay able to invest in crucial infrastructure and services

People in traditional attire celebrate the Yomari Punhi festival in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu in December.

Nepal and the SDGs

Dreams of economic prosperity and sustainable development

by Rukamanee Maharjan
Further investment in education and health is needed to fully realise the potential of young people in Africa.

Growth

What can help sub-Saharan Africa grow in an inclusive way?

by Aimé Muligo Sindayigaya
A mural on a wall at Punjab University in Lahore depicts the burden placed on the poor to sustain the lifestyle of the elite.

Social sector

Pakistan’s social divide

by Abdur Rehman Cheema
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A woman in Iran is protesting for her rights.
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Gender equality

Empowering women and girls is crucial to achieving gender justice.

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations from China in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Looking the other way is (not) an option

by Selmin Çalışkan
Torchlight procession in Kolkata in August 2025, on the anniversary of the brutal rape of a female doctor in the city.

Gender equality

A city where women need panic buttons is not a safe city

by Roli Mahajan
Women fighting against the terror militia ISIS in Iraq in 2014. The conflict has left both physical and emotional scars.

Empowerment

Supporting traumatised women and girls in Iraq

by Haneen Masoud
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