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Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

The two pieces of good news this month are about Bhutan’s way to become the first country in the world that is carbon negative, and about Vietnam’s new comprehensive AI law.

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Beauty

Embracing blackness

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by Damilola Oyedele
The majority of young people in Kenya rely for employment on the informal sector: a market in Nairobi, Kenya.

Youth unemployment

A ticking time bomb

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by Helmut Danner
Darius Meissner, Kaya Schloessler, Ribhu Vorha and Chandra Nusselein with waste-related playing cards.

weltwärts volunteers

WasteLess teaches children to waste less

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by Ribhu Vohra
by Chandrah Nusselein
by Darius Meissner
by Kaya Schloessler
Myanmar’s dry season was unusually hot and long this year, leading to water shortages. People line up to fetch drinking water from a pond in Dala township south of Yangon in May.

Comment

Climate change deserves top-level attention

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by Katja Dombrowski

Afterthoughts concerning the G20 summit in China

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by Hans Dembowski
Aid for trade is meant to diversify a country’s export industry. Garden furniture produced for export in Ghana.

Aid effectiveness

Modest impact

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by Peter Nunnenkamp
by Rainer Thiele
Ethiopia is on the way to becoming self-sufficient in agriculture.

Political environment

Stability promotes economic development

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by Christoph Kannengießer
Africa’s metropolitan middle class has similar consumer demand as its counterpart in industrial countries: fashion show in Lagos.

Government guarantees

New strategy for Africa

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by Christoph Kannengießer
Coastal fishermen: Mozambique is still quite poor.

Foreign trade

Mozambique’s foreign trade weakness

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by Friedrich Kaufmann
by Winfried Borowczak
Red Cross activists in Namibia: Rosemary Nalisa is standing in the front row, Brian Patjens is the blond man in the first row.

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“Many fellow Namibians think we are a foreign organisation”

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by Rosemary Nalisa
by Brian Patjens Brian Patjens