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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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International finance institutions

Two multilateral banks based in China

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by Praveen Jha
This year’s BRICS summit was a digitised event.

International relations

A brief history of the BRICS

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by Praveen Jha
Gond women showing the ink marks that indicate they took part in the state elections in Madhya Pradesh in late 2018.

India’s Adivasis

Over 100 million people belong to India’s scheduled tribes

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee

Resources

Zambia and DRC partnering in battery production

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by Derrick Silimina
When a family member joins an extremist group, the cattle are safe: herders near Mopti in 2019.

Security

Islamist extremists operate like typical insurgents

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by Lori-Anne Théroux-Bénoni
by Hans Dembowski
Flags in front of the UN headquarters in New York City.

Our View

Global challenges require global responses

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by Hans Dembowski
Inger Andersen, the executive director of UNEP, speaking at the agency’s headquarter in Nairobi.

Multilateralism

"The UN must adapt to global change"

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by David Mfitumukiza
David Mfitumukiza
by Jörg Döbereiner
by Hans Dembowski

Kenyan election

Suggestion to legalise industrial hemp

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by Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki
Healer procuring supplies for traditional medicinal use at a local market in the Nigerian city of Akure in August 2019.

Traditional medicine

Why many Africans must rely on informal health care

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by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
Older people have a right to a dignified life: a woman in Sogamoso, Colombia.

Demographic change

Older people’s rights are human rights

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by Dagmar Wolf