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East Africa’s largest port Mombasa in Kenya serves as an important logistic hub for the entire region, including the landlocked countries of Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.

Infrastructure

Trade needs ports

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by Kacana Sipangule
Coral reefs serve as sub-surface breakwaters and thus contribute to protecting coasts of Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, for example.

Adapting to climate change

Valuable protection

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by Linda Engel
Income disparity enforces other existing inequalities such as ethnic inequality: many members of ethnic minorities in Thailand need interpreters when dealing with public offices.

Inequality

Redistributing money and power

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by Katja Dombrowski
What most seamstresses earn in Bangladesh does not provide a decent living.

World economy

Sustainability requires fair wages

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Trevor Noah likening Donald Trump to Jacob Zuma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tKOV0KqPlg

USA

Plainly unpresidential

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by Hans Dembowski
Illness has made the breadwinner (right) in this Cambodian family unfit for work.

ODA

Cash transfers help the extreme poor

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by Frank Bliss
Survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines: Their plight became a testing ground in 2013 for private investment and profit opportunities.

Resilience

The rise of a concept

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by Usche Merk
East Africa produces milk and meat itself and imposes high import duties on foreign products: cattle in Rwanda.

EU trade policy

Same rules for all

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by Theresa Krinninger

US politics

A populist party and its unpresidential president

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by Hans Dembowski
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