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Powerful Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Our view

The opportunity of crisis

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by Katja Dombrowski
Malawi’s markets are not ordered to shut down.

Legal action

Malawi judge blocks lockdown

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Not much scope for social distancing: a soldier enforcing South Africa’s lockdown in a township.

Global crisis

Debt swaps make sense

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by Christoph Hoffmann
Marketing charcoal in rural Uganda.

Infrastructure

Destructive biomass demand

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by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki
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Rural road in Malawi: local people would benefit from better infrastructure.

Employment

The urgency of public works programmes

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by Joachim von Braun
by Tekalign Sakketa

Press freedom

Risky business

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by Moutaz Ali
Shop owners and other businesses suffer unreliable power supply.

Power shortages

When the lights go out

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by Derrick Silimina
Nigerian police officer arresting man for disobeying lockdown.

Pandemic response

Why lockdowns may prove deadly

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by Katharina Michaelowa
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by Axel Michaelowa
Work must go on – a carpenter in Benin in better times.

Development finance

Africa’s private sector needs support

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by Bruno Wenn
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