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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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Israeli tanks during a training exercise on the Golan Heights near the Syrian border.

MENA

Resolving conflicts over land and water

by Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza

by Markus Heinrich

02.03.2017

Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis: Endless Suffering with No End in Sight

Don’t forget the Yemenis

by Katja Dombrowski

25.01.2017

Postcolonial splendour in Senegal’s capital Dakar.

Colonial history

The dark side of European enlightenment

by Hans Dembowski

14.01.2017

Tradition and modernity: control room of an oil refinery in Zahran, Saudi Arabia.

New book

A difficult ally

by Sabine Balk

07.01.2017

Syrian refugee woman in the UNHCR refugee camp in Diavata, Greece.

Syrian refugees

Women at risk

by Dagmar Wolf

05.01.2017

Isra and Kholoud are two young Palestinian women who take part in a course run by Youth for Development.

Education

Hope and employment

by Mona Naggar

31.12.2016

Africa

Disasters waiting to happen

by Ndongo Samba Sylla

18.12.2016

Worried about its own industries, Nigeria does not want to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU: merchants in Lagos.

Economic Partnership Agreements

In the balance

by Helmut Asche

22.11.2016

An international African court could one day hold perpetrators of violence accountable: internally displaced people in the Central African Republic.

International law

The African Court

by Darleen Seda

20.11.2016

Fatou Bensouda from Gambia is the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor.

International criminal justice

Dissatisfaction with the court

by Darleen Seda

19.11.2016