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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.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

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In Ethiopia, greater purchasing power has not led to a strengthening of democracy: salesman in Addis Ababa.

Social stratification

Myths of middle class dynamism

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by Henning Melber
Participants in an event to celebrate International Women’s Day in Kabul in 2018.

Islamism

Islamist ideology has softened a bit in Afghanistan

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by Rishikesh Thapa
Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus, gestures after receiving a vaccine shot in Cape Town in May.

Health care

Africans are learning lessons from other world regions

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by Benjamin M. Kagina
by Hans Dembowski
Holocaust survivor George Soros is ostracised by anti-Semites for being a Jew and by the Netanyahu government for criticising its policies.

Blog

Criticism of Netanyahu is not necessarily anti-Semitic

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by Hans Dembowski
Afghan police officer and US soldier in Kabul in 2015.

Afghanistan

Afghans feel left alone in view of US withdrawal

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by Nawid Paigham
Not calling for austerity: Kristalina Georgieva of the IMF addressing a digitised press conference last year.

Pandemic response

Covid-19 as a chance to re-imagine public finance in Africa

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by Chimezie Anajama
Mobile health staff caring for a malnourished infant in Yemen.

Humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen

IRC: More money and peace talks needed for Yemen

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by Tamuna Sabadze
The pandemic is slowing down economic life: taking a person’s temperature in Accra, Ghana.

Covid-19 vaccination

Covid-19 vaccination: Don’t leave Africa behind

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by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
Belgian soldiers patrolling a Christmas fair in Brussels after terror attacks of 2015.

Relevant reading

The Middle East and the challenge to the west

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by Dagmar Wolf
Protesters demand in Tunis in December 2020 that the authorities implement promised reforms in the Kairouan region.

Political transition

Is Tunisia’s democracy at risk?

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by Sofian Philip Naceur