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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Waithood – endless adolescence

The future belongs to young people. They must be empowered to assume responsibility. Far too often, however, they lack prospects. It is encouraging that, all over the world, many want to take their fate into their own hands.

Crime
Sonja Peteranderl

Gangs as political excuse

State failure and violence in Central America

Political environment
Christoph Kannengießer

Stability promotes economic development

Upswing requires the right environment in a developing country

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

State of lawlessness in the Philippines

President Rodrigo Duterte’s iron fist won’t make Filipinos safer

Human rights
Raphael Mweninguwe

The wrong skin colour

In Malawi, albinos are often killed due to witchcraft beliefs

weltwärts volunteers
Rosemary Nalisa
Brian Patjens Brian Patjens

“Many fellow Namibians think we are a foreign organisation”

Leader of Namibia Red Cross Society discusses her agency’s work with German weltwärts volunteer

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Gabon needs total recount

Autocratic rule is an important reason people flee from African countries

Prostitution
Parach Mach

“The worst is yet to come”

In the wake of the economic collapse, prostitution is surging in South Sudan

Regional integration
Alfred R. Bizoza
Eugenia Kayitesi

Africa’s bewildering spaghetti bowl

PEGNet Conference will assess opportunities of regional integration in Africa

Health
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Condom inaccessibility fuels HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS is on the rise in rural Zimbabwe due to lack of condoms

International exchange
Eva-Maria Verfürth

African-German Youth Initiative launched

Germany and African Union cooperate in African-German Youth Initiative

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire