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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Nicaragua Canal

Citizen protests

Citizens directly affected by the construction of the Nicaragua Canal are fighting against the project

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 01 August to 07 August

Terrorism
Emmanuel Kisiangani

Islamist insurgents in eastern Africa

Why eastern Africa has become a hotbed of extremism and why foreign military interventions cannot solve the problems

Extremism
Emmanuel Kisiangani

What makes the Al-Shabaab strong

Characteristics of Al-Shabaab, eastern Africa’s most dangerous Islamist outfit

Faith-based regime
Maysam Behravesh

“Shias support underdogs”

How the regime in Tehran ticks

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 25 July to 31 July

Economics
Rainer Thiele

Discussing "pro-poor growth"

Annual PEGNet conference will assess how growth can be made to benefit disadvantaged people

Medical services
Karim Okanla

Science-based clinic or witch doctor?

Benin's public health services are good, but too weak

Multilateral affairs
Bernd Bornhorst

Missed opportunity

In the eyes of civil-society organisations, the UN conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa was a disappointment

Monetary union
Mohamed Gueye

Lessons not learned

Greece’s crisis reminds African observers of failed structural-adjustment programmes

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”