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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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Farmers need protection against climate risks: Harvesting rice in Bangladesh.

Finance

Inclusive insurance for everyone

by Dirk Reinhard

05.05.2022

A pastoralist stands among goats and sheep that presumably died of exposure to extreme weather in Kenya, 2022.

Informal sector

Social protection for everyone

by Markus Loewe

04.05.2022

Poor infrastructure makes accidents more likely – overturned truck in Uganda in late 2020.

Road safety

High death risk on African roads

by Ben Ezeamalu

03.05.2022

China is not interested in democracy and human rights: President Xi Jinping with guests at Africa summit in Beijing in 2018.

Development cooperation

The relentless global decay of democracy

by Aline Burni

by Niels Keijzer

29.04.2022

Drought in Chimanimani in eastern Zimbabwe: The region is severely affected by climate change.

World Risk Index 2021

Small island states and Africa are particularly vulnerable

by Monika Hellstern

26.04.2022

Swearing-in of Shebaz Sharif (white hair) as prime minister.

Rule of law

Pakistan’s new prime minister faces huge challenges

by Marva Khan

20.04.2022

Protesters demand immediate release of journalist Rozina Islam in Bangladesh, 2021.

Freedom of the press

Hundreds of journalists imprisoned

by Jörg Döbereiner

15.04.2022

Work-place safety has improved: Nazma Akter (in red) taking part in a rally in Dhaka in 2019, commemorating the Rana Plaza disaster of 2013.

Bangladesh

The price garment workers paid for Covid-19 in Bangladesh

by Nazma Akter

by Marianne Scholte

13.04.2022

Press freedom

Ghanaian journalists face a crackdown on free speech

by Dasmani Laary

12.04.2022

Nowadays

Zambia fights corruption

by Derrick Silimina

11.04.2022