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AI helps in the fight against marine litter.

Good News

Reduced under-five mortality and fight against marine litter

The two pieces of good news this month are about an underwater robot that removes litter from the sea and the succesful fight against under-five mortality.

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Taking a selfie: many Indian girls do not have a smartphone of their own.

Social media

“The vast majority does not get any kind of sex education”

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by Payal Arora
by Hans Dembowski
Informal businesses typically do not have access to capital: market vendor in Lagos.

Women’s empowerment

Double burden of household work and earning money

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by Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola
Helmut Kohl, then Germany’s chancellor, is applauded after signing the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Rio in 1992.

Global environment

Environmental UN conventions are mutually reinforcing

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by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi

Solar power

Water for a parched land

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by Farai Shawn Matiashe
In August 2020, an oil-spill had severe impacts on the coast of Mauritius as well as the Blue Bay Marine Park.

Biodiversity

International community misses maritime protection target

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by Wanjohi Kabukuru
James Michel, then president of the Seychelles, with Pope Francis in Rome in 2015.

Ocean life

“Blue economy” is more than a catch word

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by Wanjohi Kabukuru
Kristalina Georgieva, the first IMF top leader from a developing country.

Multilateral affairs

IMF executive board re-endorses Georgieva

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by Hans Dembowski
Bees are the most important pollinators.

Global environment

Fundamental questions of survival

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by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
Angry young people protesting in a suburb of Johannesburg in July 2015.

State building

How to make African statehood more successful

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by Henning Melber
Training of Maa Feew´s health assistants in Podor, Senegal.

Female genital mutilation

“Violence is related to a variety of social conditions”

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by Mariame Racine Sow
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk