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Members of local self-help groups in the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar gather in their church to discuss how they can improve their incomes by communal pig farming.

Supporting civil society

Making democratic principles tangible

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by Meike Geppert
People crossing a tributary to Lake Chad.

Water stress

The dwindling lake

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by Damilola Oyedele
In 2013, President Enrique Peña Nieto introduced a national strategy to prevent and control obesity and diabetes.

Diabetes

Mexico’s sugar war

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by Sonja Peteranderl
The spinning mill of the DBL Group is clean as a whistle.

Garment production

Glimmers of hope

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Education

No money, no schoolbooks

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by Humphrey Nkonde
Ethiopian farmer assesses faild crops in early 2017.

Farming

Drought is the new normal

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by Belay Begashaw
Cologne was destroyed by allied air raids: When German policymakers speak of a Marshall Plan, they think of an economic miracle after a devastating, self-inflicted war.

Political jargon

A contentious term

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by Hans Dembowski
Nardendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath in March.

India

Brutally divisive

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by Hans Dembowski

In Turkey and elsewhere, democracy is not just majority rule

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by Hans Dembowski
Of 160 detained Turkish media workers, Deniz Yücel is the best known in Germany because he has the German citizenship and works for a major German newspaper.

Authoritarianism

Post-referendum repression

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by Hans Dembowski
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