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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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View of the Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai, China.

Development regime

China’s rise from a very poor to a higher-middle income country

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by Stefan Dercon
by Hans Dembowski
Fanuel Leul is a digital artist

Artist of the month

Fanuel Leul is an Ethiopian digital artist

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by D+C / E+Z
Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

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by D+C / E+Z
Protests in the run-up to SpaceX’s initial public offering, which made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

Plutocracy

Another step towards Muskism

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by Hans Dembowski
The Makoko floating slum in Lagos, Nigeria.

Population growth

Why affordable housing remains out of reach in Nigeria

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by Sarafadeen Olalekan Oyeleke
Ghana’s foreign minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, at the opening of the Consultative Conference in Accra.

Slavery

Humanity’s gravest crime: “Recognition creates responsibility”

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by Dasmani Laary
Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov’s “Nord” yacht passed through the Strait of Hormuz in April 2026. Picture taken in the Eastern Bosphorus Strait in 2022.

Power and wealth

The oligarchs’ world is here. What can we do about it?

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by David Lingelbach
by Valentina Rodríguez Guerra
The “Road to Africa” project is testing the infrastructure for e-mobility in Africa by undertaking journeys through several countries.

E-mobility

Powering Africa’s trade: The promise of electric corridors

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by Kenny Suze
Will the UN Sustainable Development Goals be abandoned after 2030? Their future is uncertain.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Four future scenarios for the 2030 Agenda

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by Johannes Kummerow
by Jörn Geißelmann
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke at a protest in New Delhi in June.

Political satire

Why young Indians are proud to call themselves cockroaches

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by Roli Mahajan