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Conflict

The international community must pay attention to the DRC

The situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is escalating once again. Since January, the rebel group M23 has taken control of a number of important cities. The fighting has the potential to drag the entire region into it. The global community must take a stand, not least because the conflict centres on resources we all rely on.

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by Miriam Ogutu

21.02.2025

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Children in conflict

Almost half a million Cameroonian children are out of school

The separatist conflict in the Anglophone part of Cameroon, which has been going on for years, also has to do with the different education systems in the country. School operations are constantly disrupted, schools are destroyed or house refugees or the military. The effects on young people are devastating.

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by Amindeh Blaise Atabong

20.02.2025

Education

Hope for Cameroon’s children – just not enough

In Cameroon, hundreds of thousands of children have not been able to go to school for years due to the conflict in the English-speaking regions of the country. The fact that the EU is providing more funding gives hope – but is far from sufficient in a conflict that has been largely forgotten by the international community.

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by Amindeh Blaise Atabong

19.02.2025

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International cooperation

The destruction of American development policy

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by Stephan Klingebiel

18.02.2025

Food security

How farming initiatives preserve Zimbabwe’s mopane worms

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by Derick Matsengarwodzi

17.02.2025

Sovereign default

After sovereign default, Ghana’s economic challenges persist

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by J. Atsu Amegashie

14.02.2025

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Women's resistance

Women's rights activists

“We have taken several transnational corporations to court”

When workers are exploited or indigenous land rights are threatened, lawyer Alejandra Ancheita doesn’t hesitate to bring mining and energy giants before international accountability mechanisms.

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by Alejandra Ancheita

11.02.2025

Our view

Women are leading change

Around the world, women are campaigning against inequality and the abuse of power to achieve more democracy and freedom for all. Yet many of their successes go largely unnoticed.

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

03.02.2025

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are systematically banishing women from the public sphere while the world looks on. Human-rights expert Selmin Çalışkan discusses creative activism and international solidarity – and how women in Afghanistan are fighting back.

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by Selmin Çalışkan

by Eva-Maria Verfürth

29.01.2025

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“Some environmentalists now call for degrowth. What they miss is that degrowth is not a strategy that will help humankind meet the needs of the global poor.”