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How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

by Lungelo Ndhlovu

30.03.2026

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Vaccine hesitancy is spreading, but many people are proud of getting their jab.

Chronic diseases

Brazil’s health-care challenges

by Thuany Rodrigues

11.07.2021

Super-rich philanthropists are a tiny minority everywhere: Aliko Dangote, Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates at an event in New York City in 2019.

Inequality

A tale of rich and poor

by Ndongo Samba Sylla

09.07.2021

Small-scale fishing still provides livelihoods in Dakar.

Income inequality

Why Africa lacks a robust middle class

by Ndongo Samba Sylla

08.07.2021

Too many people cannot read: newspaper vendor in Dar es Salaam in March 2021.

Adult literacy

Getting back on track

by Lawrence Kilimwiko

07.07.2021

Temporary Covid-19 hospital in São Paolo.

Health care

An over-stretched system

by Thuany Rodrigues

06.07.2021

Pharmacist Elke Althöfer-Blautzik on an emergency mission to Mozambique in 2019.

Pharmacists in development cooperation

Essential experts

by Christian Splett

02.07.2021

Cancer

Unaffordable treatment

by Max Klein

by Jörg Schaaber

30.06.2021

Delivery of Covid-19 vaccine to South Sudan in March 2021 under the COVAX initiative – but experts say COVAX is delivering far too little vaccines worldwide.

Patents

Intellectual property versus health care

by Max Klein

by Jörg Schaaber

29.06.2021

Covid-19

Malawi refuses expired vaccines

by Raphael Mweninguwe

28.06.2021

Increasing purchasing power: shoppers in the electronic goods department of a store in Accra in 2007.

Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

by Sabine Balk

27.06.2021