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Regierungsführung
DR Congo
Gesine Ames

Dangerous power play

Churches join forces to demand fair elections in the Congo

Journalism
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

The methods of fact-checking

The basic principles of professional fact checking

Media
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

Fighting for honesty and truth

Africa Check is helping the public to stay informed about the facts

Transparency
Edward Ronald Sekyewa

Making information laws work

Media freedom activists in Uganda are using laws to hold the government accountable

Fake news
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

No lie is too blatant

Fake reports on Filipino Facebook pages

Right-wing authoritarianism
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Powerful falsehoods

How Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, depends on online trolls

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why it would make sense to pardon Lula

Brazil's former president has surrendered to the police

Corruption
Raphael Mweninguwe

Stealing money from sick people

Malawi’s health sector is crumbling, possibly due to corruption

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A primer on post-truth life in Moscow

In Russia, nothing is true and everything is possible

Southern Africa
Henning Melber

New brooms sweeping clean?

Political upheaval is taking place from the Congo to South Africa

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Poverty Reduction

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

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
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Gender Equality

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

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
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

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

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”
Why Kenya is on fire

Sustainability

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

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”
Why Kenya is on fire