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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.

by D+C / E+Z

05.12.2025

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Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis: Endless Suffering with No End in Sight

Don’t forget the Yemenis

by Katja Dombrowski

25.01.2017

Rally opposing re-burial of Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator, on Manila’s National Heroes Cemetery in November.

Extrajudicial killings

National suicide

by Alan C. Robles

25.01.2017

President Nasser addressing a rally in Alexandria in 1957.

Egypt

An ancient land

by Ingy Salama

24.01.2017

Elections

Distorted choices

by Maxwell Suuk

23.01.2017

Personality cult: the president’s face on a sweet.

North Africa

Defining the nation

by Ingy Salama

22.01.2017

Protestors demand press freedom in Warsaw in December.

Europe

Right-wing populists in the EU

by Daniel Bax

21.01.2017

Egyptian media workers demonstrate in Cairo after members of their trade union were arrested in November 2016.

Political foundations

Civil society’s shrinking space

by Frank Priess

20.01.2017

Self-obsessed: Gerd Wilders, Marine Le Pen and Frauke Petry in Koblenz in January.

Europe

Divided continent

by Daniel Bax

19.01.2017

Unfulfilled promise: immediately after winning the referendum on EU membership, leaders of the Vote Leave campaign backed away from their promise of more funding for Britain’s National Health Service.

Endangered pluralism

Damaged democracy

by Hans Dembowski

18.01.2017

Nigeria

A country at rock bottom

by Sabine Balk

17.01.2017