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People cross the Chenab River after the flow of water was halted from a dam, at Akhnoor, on the outskirts of Jammu, India in May.

Resource conflicts

Can India withhold Pakistan’s water?

India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty is not likely to cause its neighbour Pakistan much harm in the short term, but it sets a dangerous global precedent.

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by Imran Mukhtar

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Cartoon by Iranian artist Mana Neyestani.

Authoritarian regimes

“Humour helps overcome the fear imposed by dictatorship”

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by Mana Neyestani
Health workers talk to a girl before she is vaccinated against cervical cancer at a health centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Health

A preventable disease

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by Frank Ekow Baiden
There are also women and children working in illegal cobalt mines in the DRC. Without cobalt and other raw materials needed for hardware, there would be no AI.

Technology

How AI exploits

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
by Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed
This meme spread in Kenya following President William Ruto’s announcement to buy a machine that makes chapati – a popular flatbread – for schools. Many consider this to be superfluous compared to other problems in the country.

Internet culture

When humour and tragedy go hand in hand

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by Alba Nakuwa

Energy supply

Zambia supports $ 50 billion funding pledge to expand energy access in Africa

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by Derrick Silimina
Cotton harvest in Uzbekistan on the border with Turkmenistan.

Forced labour

Improving working conditions in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry

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by Shahida Tulaganova
How much would investment need to grow to achieve the SDGs? This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Financing for development

Facts and figures

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by Isah Shafiq
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in November 2024, where Brazil proposed a global wealth tax.

Financial justice

A global minimum tax rate for the super-rich

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by André de Mello e Souza

Inflation

Malawi struggles with rising costs of essentials

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by Charles Pensulo
"Boxing", Khalid Albaih.

Our view

Political humour serves both freedom and extremism

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by Jörg Döbereiner