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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

A World Bank-led initiative has attracted attention for its promising plans to improve water access to 1 billion people by the year 2030. At the UN, members of the African Union called for a world map that better represents continents’ proportions.

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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
On the job, come rain or shine: a Zomato delivery worker in Kolkata.

Labour

India’s food-delivery workers are going hungry

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by Rishabh Jain
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
Sherif Arafa is an Egyptian author and an editorial cartoonist.

Artist of the month

Sherif Arafa is an Egyptian author and cartoonist

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Artwork by Sherif Arafa.

Our view

Under fire, but still alive

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

Climate change

How a Malawian village is holding back floods

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by Charles Pensulo
She, too, is on the US sanctions list: Tomoko Akane, the Japanese President of the ICC.

Sanctions

The USA’s attack on international law

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by Sonja Peteranderl
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
The ICC in The Hague in the Netherlands tries individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.

International law

“Strengthening civil society means strengthening international law”

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by Kai Ambos
by Eva-Maria Verfürth