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More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

The two pieces of good news this month are about more people gaining access to safe drinking water and four countries being declared free of the neglected tropical disease trachoma.

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Traffic

Road safety remains a major concern in Uganda

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by Mathias Galabuzi
A domestic help in India. It is not Reba.

Informal sector

“I just want my son to study well and then live a better life than I do”

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by Roli Mahajan
Protests against former President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa in Manila in March following Duterte’s arrest.

Philippine humour

“Joke lang!” – “Just kidding!”: Political humour in the Philippines

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by Angelo R. Lacuesta
In February 2025, Argentina’s president Javier Milei presented Elon Musk with his “chainsaw against bureaucracy”, and Musk exclaimed: “I am become meme.”

Far right

How the far right uses humour and meme culture to its advantage

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by Mirco Göpfert
by Konstanze N’Guessan

Repression

Student movements in India face growing government scrutiny

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by Arun P. Ghosh
Cartoon by Iranian artist Mana Neyestani.

Authoritarian regimes

“Humour helps overcome the fear imposed by dictatorship”

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by Mana Neyestani
Health workers talk to a girl before she is vaccinated against cervical cancer at a health centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Health

A preventable disease

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by Frank Ekow Baiden
There are also women and children working in illegal cobalt mines in the DRC. Without cobalt and other raw materials needed for hardware, there would be no AI.

Technology

How AI exploits

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
by Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed
This meme spread in Kenya following President William Ruto’s announcement to buy a machine that makes chapati – a popular flatbread – for schools. Many consider this to be superfluous compared to other problems in the country.

Internet culture

When humour and tragedy go hand in hand

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by Alba Nakuwa

Energy supply

Zambia supports $ 50 billion funding pledge to expand energy access in Africa

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by Derrick Silimina