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Renewable energy is on the rise.

Good News

Renewable energy and protecting the ocean

The two pieces of good news this month are about the fact that more and more electricity is being generated from renewable energies and a treaty that governs the protection of the high seas.

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In the district of Meskan, only very few people have access to an improved latrine (left), most people have a traditional latrine (right), while 43 % of the households do not have access to any latrine.

Water and sanitation

“Every farmer must have an improved latrine”

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by Ibrahim Awol
by Katja Dombrowski
US President Donald Trump plans to weaken the development agency USAID.

Official development assistance

A matter of enlightened self-interest

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by Scott Morris
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
People crossing a tributary to Lake Chad.

Water stress

The dwindling lake

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by Damilola Oyedele
The spinning mill of the DBL Group is clean as a whistle.

Garment production

Glimmers of hope

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Ethiopian farmer assesses faild crops in early 2017.

Farming

Drought is the new normal

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by Belay Begashaw
Cologne was destroyed by allied air raids: When German policymakers speak of a Marshall Plan, they think of an economic miracle after a devastating, self-inflicted war.

Political jargon

A contentious term

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by Hans Dembowski
Gerd Müller with trainees of the German engineering company Krones in Nairobi.

International cooperation

“Our success will depend on joint action”

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by Gerd Müller
by Hans Dembowski
Africa needs regional integration: trucks waiting to cross the border from Botswana to Zambia.

International cooperation

Continent of opportunity

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by Frannie Leautier
“Happy life years” reached in Venezuela are significantly higher than in Sri Lanka, although the people in both countries have about the same life expectancy: farmer couple in Venezuela.

Research

More than a lack of money

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by Sebastian Rewerski
Extreme poor people like here in Burundi often have to walk many kilometres to fetch drinking water. This is work for women and children.

SDGs

Programmes for the poorest of the poor

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by Jörn Geißelmann