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A khat seller in Somalia, Kenya’s largest export market for the plant.

Drug trade

How a drug lobby almost reopened a border

Khat exports are worth around $ 100 million a year to Kenya. Farmers and traders hope that their economic and political clout will finally reopen the long-closed border with Somalia permanently.

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by Joseph Maina

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An anti-corruption demonstration in Abuja in 2016. Ten years on, the situation has not improved significantly.

Corruption

Protecting the people who know where the money went

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by Obongodu Paul Unanam
On the Pacific island of Pele, in Vanuatu – which is repeatedly affected by climate crises – gravestones from a submerged cemetery have been washed ashore.

Migration

“The key is to invest earlier”

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by Amy Pope
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Chinese-made vehicles are waiting to be loaded onto ships for export in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China.

Statistics

China’s development in nine numbers

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by Lucia Deon
A child undergoing a blood test in the context of the major HIV outbreak in Ratodero, Pakistan, in 2019.

Children’s health

In Pakistan, some hospitals have become places of infection

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by Aqsa Younas
Tuareg on their camels in Niger.

Indigenous Peoples

Learning climate resilience from the Tuareg

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by Rachid Bouajila
A China-made truck for export to Africa is loaded onto a China-Africa shipping route at Yantai Port in Shandong Province.

Macroeconomics

How China’s export policy impacts the Global South

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by Wolfgang Krieger
Chinese thermal imaging cameras are exported worldwide and are increasingly used for surveillance as well.

Internet governance

State sovereignty and censorship

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by Isah Shafiq
The body of a Kenyan domestic worker who died under unclear circumstances in Saudi Arabia is carried out of a hearse in Kenya in 2023.

Migration

For many Kenyans, seeking work abroad still comes at a high price

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by Joseph Maina
In 2025, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Reem Alabali Radovan, visited the municipal groundwater source in Amman together with Jihad Al-Mahamid, Secretary-General of Jordan’s Ministry of Water and Irrigation.

International cooperation

An investment in water is an investment in security

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by Reem Alabali Radovan
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