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Argentina’s President Javier Milei and US President Donald Trump drill into the world: activists in costumes during COP30.

Right-wing populism

“The Sustainable Development Goals are seen as the enemy”

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by Imme Scholz
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The youth-led protests in Madagascar in October forced President Andry Rajoelina to flee the country.

Democracy

What the world needs to learn from African movements

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by Aya Chebbi
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan inspects the guard of honour during her inauguration ceremony at the beginning of November.

Elections

Tanzania is a captured state

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at a souvenir shop in Moscow.

Governance

The oligarchs’ world order

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by David Lingelbach
by Valentina Rodríguez Guerra
President Paul Biya at his eighth swearing-in ceremony in Yaoundé in November.

Elections

Paul Biya is a time loop that Cameroon can’t seem to escape

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by Epah Mfortaw Nyukechen
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Helder Barbalho, governor of the Brazilian state of Pará, at the U.N. Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil.

International cooperation

Brazil continues to campaign for climate action and cooperation

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
A Maya Train carriage arrives at a station in Campeche, Mexico.

Organised crime

Train of destruction

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by Sonja Peteranderl
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, and Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister.

Governance

Lessons on democracy from South Africa and Ethiopia

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by Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet
Illustration by Dadi Prayoga from Indonesia.

Our view

The power of the billions

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
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