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Fighters from the separatist group Front de libération de l’Azawad (FLA) in Kidal, northern Mali.

West Africa

The Sahel cannot find peace

In the Sahel, security crises, economic decline and the consequences of the climate crisis are exacerbating one another. Whilst military juntas fail to deliver on their promises of stability, Russia and China are expanding their influence in the region.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
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Relatives mourn the victims of the recent opioid crisis in the US.

Drug use worldwide in numbers

The millions of lives destroyed by drug abuse

While more than 60 million people were living with drug use disorders in 2024, only one in 12 of these people was in treatment. Facts and figures on global drug use.

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by Isah Shafiq
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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Filipino journalist and Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa is a champion of freedom of expression.

Civil-society organisations

Fighting the weaponisation of anti-fake news laws

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by Sangeeta Mahapatra 
by Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
by Andreas Ufen
At the plenary session of CGIAR Science Week.

Communication

Lost in acronyms

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Transporting goods in Cotonou, Benin.

Poverty reduction

Strengthening access to markets for vulnerable groups

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by Arndt R. Brodkorb
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Cover of the D+C Development and Cooperation magazine, issue 11/2026: an illustrated person with bowed head holds a lit cigarette in a dark setting.
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Drugs, despair, dependency

Relatives mourn the victims of the recent opioid crisis in the US.
Drug use worldwide in numbers

The millions of lives destroyed by drug abuse

While more than 60 million people were living with drug use disorders in 2024, only one in 12 of these people was in treatment. Facts and figures on global drug use.

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by Isah Shafiq
A khat seller in Somalia, Kenya’s largest export market for the plant.
Drug trade

How a drug lobby almost reopened a border

Khat exports are worth around $ 100 million a year to Kenya. Farmers and traders hope that their economic and political clout will finally reopen the long-closed border with Somalia permanently.

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by Joseph Maina
Drug abuse is particularly high in Zimbabwe’s urban centres, especially in the capital, Harare.
Rehabilitation

Inside Zimbabwe’s controversial drug rehab camps

Young people struggling with addiction in Zimbabwe are caught between non-existent public mental health services and unregulated rehab centres. Testimonies describe military drills, corruption and confinement in facilities that claim to offer treatment.

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by Deogracious Kalima
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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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