Development and
Cooperation

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Good News

This is what the proposed new world map might look like, showing the sizes of regions near the equator more realistically.

Good News

Initiative seeks wider water access and UN votes on new world map

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by D+C / E+Z
Progress has been made in the fight against leprosy and malaria.

Good News

Chile eliminates leprosy, vaccinations help fight malaria

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by D+C / E+Z
Information boards for visitors highlight the progress made in protecting the Kasibo Wetland.

Wetlands

How the village of Kasibo in Zimbabwe reinvented itself

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by Calvin Manika
The German broadcaster DW designed an app to circumvent digital censorship.

Good News

Kenya as a pioneer of clean energy and a German app designed to circumvent censorship

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by D+C / E+Z
Mela for Her designes and manufactures reusable sanitary pads and menstrual underwear.

Ethiopia

“These menstrual health challenges require a market-based solution”

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by Kaleab Getaneh Zewelde
Yoselyn Malamud Kessler is the CEO of the Peruvian food group Virú.

Peru

Innovation and diversification helped a Peruvian company go global

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by Yoselyn Malamud Kessler
Romita Ghosh, founder of MAAP (Malnutrition Assessment and Action Plan).

India

Romita Ghosh uses AI to fight malnutrition

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by Romita Ghosh
by Roli Mahajan
Ultra fans of Al Ahly protest against the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo in September 2011.

Football stories

Egypt’s Ultras as part of the revolution

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by Marius Moniak
Members of the Afghan women’s team celebrate a goal in October 2025. At the time, the team was still competing under the name “Afghan Women United”.

Football stories

A success for Afghan women’s football

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by Isah Shafiq
There can be no energy transition without batteries, and when it comes to the battery industry, there is no getting around China: wind turbines in China’s Jiangxi Province.

Just Transition

High ambition: jointly improving the battery industry

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by Inga Petersen
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies has an explicit focus on sustainability.

Good News

Successful activism and WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

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by D+C / E+Z
Cooking with solar energy can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Just transition

How clean cooking transforms daily life for Kenyan families

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by Joseph Maina