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Lagos seen from the lagoon.

Environment

Coastal location

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by Olamide Udoma-Ejorh
Many poor people’s homes were demolished in Otodo Gbame.

Megacity

New islands for the rich

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by Olamide Udoma-Ejorh
Small-island states are vulnerable in particular: damage caused by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in 2015.

Nansen Initiative

The Nansen Initiative’s Protection Agenda

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Resilience matters: Lima, the capital of Peru, was hit by unusual rains in March.

Global affairs

The needs of displaced persons

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by Platform on Disaster Displacement
East Africa’s largest port Mombasa in Kenya serves as an important logistic hub for the entire region, including the landlocked countries of Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.

Infrastructure

Trade needs ports

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by Kacana Sipangule

Politics of fear in Uttar Pradesh

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by Hans Dembowski

Social media

Internet birthday cakes

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by Maxwell Suuk
Coral reefs serve as sub-surface breakwaters and thus contribute to protecting coasts of Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, for example.

Adapting to climate change

Valuable protection

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by Linda Engel
Income disparity enforces other existing inequalities such as ethnic inequality: many members of ethnic minorities in Thailand need interpreters when dealing with public offices.

Inequality

Redistributing money and power

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by Katja Dombrowski
When the animals die, the people lose hope: bull near the Somali-Ethiopian border in March 2017.

Emergency relief

Save human lives

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
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