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Armed rebels in Chad.

Conflict

Europe’s arms supplies and Africa’s illicit weapons trade

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by George Livingstone
Plastic waste is collected from streets and water channels in Kano, Nigeria, before being processed at a recycling facility.

Waste pickers

In Nigeria, one man’s trash is another man’s income

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by Sarafadeen Olalekan Oyeleke
Children carry their belongings across a flooded field in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State in 2021 – the third consecutive year in which the area had been hit by severe flooding.

Fragile states

Which crisis is the worst in South Sudan?

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by Alba Nakuwa

Climate change

How a Malawian village is holding back floods

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by Charles Pensulo
Hadzabe hunters light a fire near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania.

Indigenous knowledge

How Indigenous rules can help curb wildfires

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
Processing and selling cassavas leaves can provide an income to women in Burundi.

Women’s independence

What Sarah makes before Burundi wakes: the business of cassava leaves

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by Mireille Kanyange
Women are primarily responsible for managing their families’ daily lives in the Aboutengue refugee camp.

Women in conflicts

Women’s daily lives in a refugee camp: attacks, shortages and queues

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
A young man is arrested during the protests in Kenya in 2024.

Rules-based world order

Whose rights does international law protect?

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by Shakira Wafula

Climate change

How a new carbon trading system could benefit Zimbabwean communities

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu
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