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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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Gro Harlem Brundtland presenting the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development in London in 1987.

SDGs

The sustainability agenda humankind needs

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by Iwan J. Azis
Someone was missing: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came to the BRICS summit in South Africa in President Vladimir Putin’s place.

BRICS enlargement

Why more BRICS members are not necessarily better

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by Henning Melber
“Conservative understanding of office”: Karim Khan, the ICC Chief Prosecutor during a press conference at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine in September 2023.

Israel and Palestine

„This is rich coming from an Israeli leader“

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Iran and China are likely to benefit most from BRICS expansion: Iran's former president Ebrahim Raisi and Xi Jinping, China's president, in February 2023.

International affairs

Why BRICS+ may prove weaker than expected

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by André de Mello e Souza
Talks between China and Malawi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit 2023.

Southern Africa

Why Africa is caught between two stools with BRICS

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by Geoffrey Mzumara
Climate finance can lower the costs of alternatives to fossil fuels: solar farm in Zimbabwe.

Global governance

Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance

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by Karol Kempa
by Michael König-Sykorova
by Ulf Moslener
by Oliver Schenker

Large-scale projects

Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe

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by Progress Mwareya
Poorly managed pandemic: lockdown meant millions of migrant workers had to leave the cities at the same time in May 2020.

Social disparities

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Demonstration in Rome in favour of a free Ambazonia.

Language politics in Cameroon

From colonial division to bloody conflict

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by Amindeh Blaise Atabong
Coup supporters in Niger wave Russian flags.

Russia and China

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso
by Hans Dembowski