Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate. That was true in 1947, when the country became independent, and in far too many areas, it is still true today. Rural communities generally lack good public services and have too few economic opportunities. Climate...

Elections

Protected by God

Burundi has held elections – without much consideration of the corona pandemic

Traffic safety

Carnage on the roads

Ghana’s roads are increasingly scenes of serious traffic accidents

UN prognosis

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

UN report highlights challenges related to water stress

Hard-hit country

Resilience tested once again

Nepal's government may need to reconsider its development strategy due to Covid-19 crisis

Water crisis

Vital resource

The climate crisis and overuse of water put the water supply in many countries at risk

Marginalised communities

Spreading dangerously

Covid-19 strikes hard in Rio de Janeiro's many informal settlements

Information technology

Tech training at Rhino Camp

A South Sudanese exile has become the go-to IT expert for his neighbours at a refugee settlement in northern Uganda

Economics

Count in human beings

Two Nobel laureates want economists to focus more on empirical reality

Shared responsibility

Debt relief for poorest countries

Left to themselves, developing countries can’t cope with the Covid-19 pandemic

Malawi

Sewing masks to fight corona

In Malawi, an army of volunteers across the country are busy sewing face masks from locally available materials such as cotton and pieces of fabric