In the face of multiple global crises, power shifts and anti-democratic tendencies, policymakers are facing unprecedented challenges. Solutions require smart prioritisation, new trust and transparency.

Law makers argue that the policy will reduce the carbon footprint and mitigate the negative effects of pollution on public health and the environment. Some economists disagree.

The West African country’s democracy is alive, but Senegal’s citizens evidently resent western influence

The Kenyan government’s plans to extend a road that runs through one of the country’s last remaining forest and game reserves are meeting with resistance.

Much has been achieved for queer people in Germany in recent decades. At the same time, they are still a target for physical and psychological abuse.

Radical groups are instrumentalising the Gaza war for their own purposes and recruiting young people via social media.

To support recipient countries sustainably, donor governments and institutions must respect regional cultures, argues Pirmin Spiegel, the director-general of Misereor, the Catholic development agency.

Credit and savings from the village savings and loan schemes are used by Malawians for several purposes. For many, it provides money for common groceries in times when agriculture harvests decline.

While women pay a disproportionately heavy price in armed conflicts every day, they are still largely excluded from official peacebuilding processes

In Zanzibar, women have taken up the cultivation of climate-resilient sponges in the Indian Ocean