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Peer pressure: in December, the elected presidents of Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ghana visited Gambia’s President Jammeh and told him to step down after losing elections.

Governance

Setting the right example

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by Hans Dembowski

Development policy

Marshall Plan with Africa

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Development effectiveness must be monitored: failed project in the Central African Republic.

Aid Effectiveness

Managing and monitoring ­effectiveness

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by Peter Lanzet
Effective aid is delivered where it is really needed: a school in Cameroon.

Aid Effectiveness

Rekindling interest in effectiveness

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by Peter Lanzet
A salt caravan near Agadez in Niger: ancient trade routes are increasingly used by criminals to smuggle drugs, arms and even people.

Sahel

Lack of statehood

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
António Guterres with the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci (left), and the Greek Cypriot leader, Nicos Anastasiades (right).

United Nations

Guterres is on fire

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by Friederike Bauer
Money spent in donor countries for refugees counts as official development assistance (ODA). Syrian woman in a refugee camp in Greece.

ODA

Aid increase too small

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by Katja Dombrowski
Xi’s personality cult is reminiscent of Mao.

Authoritarianism

Populism in the Middle Kingdom

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by Nora Sausmikat
Donald Trump visiting Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in summer 2016.

USA – Mexico

The fence is already up

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by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
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