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Image by David Amen, inspired by the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

Urban life

Cities have many faces

For this edition, we asked ourselves what makes a city liveable. Many of the problems faced by Nairobi – and the ways they are being tackled – are typical of big cities in the Global South. Let’s go and explore.

by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

13.02.2026

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Prepare for more droughts: elephant digging up water from a dry riverbed in Kenya.

Lessons of the past

Unconditional support

by Ronald Mangani

18.02.2014

Print edition

Contents February issue

17.02.2014

Fishermen at the Danjiangkou Dam, part of China’s South-North Water Transfer Project.

Infrastructure

Controversial undertakings

by Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann

14.02.2014

Letters

Public responses

13.02.2014

Opponents of the US administration’s surveillance programme in Washington.

Civil society

G8 nations at fault

by Ellen Thalman

12.02.2014

Money laundering is a challenge for regulators all over the world, including Germany: fog over Frankfurt, the financial centre.

Corruption

Stealing money from the needy

by Sheila Mysorekar

07.02.2014

The young generation is Internet savvy: computer room at a youth centre in Accra.

Communication technology

Job-hunting and prenatal classes in Ghana

by Monika Hellstern

07.02.2014

Global public goods

The web of life

by Mathieu Régnier

05.02.2014

Slum dwellers in Mombasa: inequality is growing in many countries.

News

In brief

04.02.2014

Germany’s Federal Government

“Humanity’s common future”

by Gerd Müller

03.02.2014