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Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS

Creating prospects

Activate! raises awareness for HIV/AIDS with KfW support in South Africa

Dynamic growth

Remarkable Progress

Rwanda has prospered under the determined leadership of President Kagame

Humanitarian logistics

Making aid more effective

Helmut Baumgarten and Hendrik Blome: How to improve the logistics of aid operations in crisis regions

Energy transition

The windy islands

Toni Kaatz-Dubberke: Cape Verde is well on its way to a self-sufficient power supply with renewable energy

West Africa

Insufficient fire wood

Benin’s energy supply depends on fire wood – and smuggled petrol from Nigeria

Education

The difficulties of becoming an artist

Many African artists find it difficult to get vocational training

Interview

“One cannot shed one’s sexual identity”

South African Imam says Islam does not oppose different sexual orientations

Epidemics

Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times

With the Ebola epidemic spreading rapidly, Sierra Leone took drastic measures

Ebola epidemic

“Greatest peacetime challenge”

Ebola likely to be „greatest peacetime challenge“ that the UN has ever faced

Psychosocial support

“You are not crazy, your situation was”

Dealing with trauma is essential for peacebuilding in post-conflict countries

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