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The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, spoke at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh about her Bridgetown Initiative to reform development financing.

Global governance

Reforming development finance

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
by Yabibal M. Walle
by Christoph Sommer
by Sabine Laudage Teles
Queue outside a polling station for the 2021 presidential election in Zambia, which was followed by a peaceful transfer of power that strengthened democracy.

Democracy protection

Protecting democracy, averting autocratisation

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by Julia Leininger
Members of the Libyan Red Crescent are working to open roads after the devastating floods in September.

Development policy

Religion needs to be a part of the solution

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by Thomas Rachel
Refugees face the Italian police on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

Our View

Abandoning our own values

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Act of remembrance in Barcelona, Spain, for around 2600 refugees who died in the Mediterranean in 2023.

World Bank study

Migration as a powerful force for development

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Geothermal power plants are also being promoted through policy reforms.

KfW

Funding a just coal phase-out

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by Carmen Sorgler
Injured Gazan boy receives medical treatment on a hospital floor in Gaza.

Gaza war

One percent of Gaza’s population has died in the current war

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by Hans Dembowski
Transmission lines and substations feed sustainably generated electricity into the Indian power grid to transport it to where it is needed most.

KfW

Green energy corridors deliver electricity

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Briefing in late November for Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu (centre) in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz where Hamas terrorists killed at least 52 people on 7 October.

Antisemitism

Hating Jews, but supporting Israel

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by Hans Dembowski
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