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Relatives mourn the victims of the recent opioid crisis in the US.

Drug use worldwide in numbers

The millions of lives destroyed by drug abuse

While more than 60 million people are living with drug use disorders, only one in 12 of these people is in treatment. Facts and figures on global drug use.

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by Isah Shafiq

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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

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by Joseph Maina
Drug abuse is particularly high in Zimbabwe’s urban centres, especially in the capital, Harare.

Rehabilitation

Inside Zimbabwe’s controversial drug rehab camps

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by Deogracious Kalima
Men in a bar in Kano – drinking alcohol has become a pastime in Nigeria.

Alcohol

Why alcohol is a threat to public health in Nigeria

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by Chinedu Moghalu
Books displayed for sale at street book fairs held at different locations across Khartoum.

Conflict

Khartoum: a city picks up its pieces

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by Aunnab Alman
Armed rebels in Chad.

Conflict

Europe’s arms supplies and Africa’s illicit weapons trade

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by George Livingstone
Plastic waste is collected from streets and water channels in Kano, Nigeria, before being processed at a recycling facility.

Waste pickers

In Nigeria, one man’s trash is another man’s income

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by Sarafadeen Olalekan Oyeleke
Children carry their belongings across a flooded field in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State in 2021 – the third consecutive year in which the area had been hit by severe flooding.

Fragile states

Which crisis is the worst in South Sudan?

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by Alba Nakuwa

Climate change

How a Malawian village is holding back floods

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by Charles Pensulo
Hadzabe hunters light a fire near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania.

Indigenous knowledge

How Indigenous rules can help curb wildfires

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
A young man is arrested during the protests in Kenya in 2024.

Rules-based world order

Whose rights does international law protect?

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by Shakira Wafula