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Queen Elizabeth II and President Kwame Nkrumah depicted on a billboard in Accra in 1961 ahead of the monarch’s visit to the former colony Ghana, which was then considered to be an “underdeveloped” country.

International relations

From “underdevelopment” to the SDGs

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
UN peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire in 2012.

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

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by Florian Gaisrucker
Young Afghan victims of war.

Our view

Belonging together

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by Hans Dembowski
China’s government promises to accelerate transition to renewables: worker in a coal mine in Inner Mongolia.

Infrastructure

Build back better

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by Katie Cashman
Mexico needs its care workers: Red Cross nurse grieving at the funeral of a colleague who died of Covid-19.

Nursing care and support

A new intergenerational compact

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by Almut Schnerring
by Sascha Verlan
A café on the Place des Abesses, similar to many cafés where Parisians enjoyed their evening on 13 November 2015.

Summer Special

Khalil – inside the mind of a terrorist

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by Dagmar Wolf
Nairobians protesting against police violence.

Our view

Black lives matter

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by Hans Dembowski
In 2016, after around 50 years of civil war, Colombia’s then President Juan Manuel Santos signed a peace deal with the FARC rebels.

United Nations

New approach to conflict prevention

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Education matters: a high-school student doing homework in rural Burkina Faso.

UNDP

“Governance is fundamental”

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by Achim Steiner
by Hans Dembowski
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