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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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By 2018, agriculture only accounted for a little more than a quarter of the labour force in China.

Asian giants

China is ahead of India

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by Praveen Jha

Mobile phones

Ringing up sales

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by Derrick Silimina
Child soldiers of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone.

Civil wars

Children in terrorist organisations

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by Dagmar Wolf
Due to the destruction of schools and the dramatic reduction in the number of teachers, a “lost generation” is growing up in Syria: school east of Idlib, destroyed by a Russian attack in March 2020.

Syria

Difficult reconstruction

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by Dagmar Wolf

Environment

Running dry

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
The military under Colonel Assimi Goita (centre) has taken over the government in Mali.

Change of power in Mali

Civil society sees political awakening

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by Grit Lenz
President Emmerson Mnangagwa observes Covid-19 rules – but also uses them for less than benevolent purposes.

Governance

Suppressing dissenters during lockdown

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
Informal businesses are common in Kenya: knife sharpening service in Nairobi.

Dysfunctional policy

Under-performing ODA darling

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
GiveDirectly is cost-efficient, bypasses bureaucracies and helps poor people take their fate into their own hands.

Official development assistance

Why taxation matters

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz

Solar energy

Power from the sun

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by Derrick Silimina