Development and
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Running dry

India’s water crisis

Overuse and mismanagement of resources are creating an impending water crisis in India

Identity checks

Securing Ghana’s borders

New identity checks at Ghana’s border crossings are causing confusion

Women’s work

Women take on menial jobs

Zimbabwean women are taking on difficult menial jobs once held only by men

Land rights

Taking possession

A spate of land-grabbing and lack of clarity on land tenure rules are exacerbating conflict in South Sudan

Marginalisation

Living on the land – but not owning it

Zimbabwe’s women face resistance to exercising their rights to own land

Sanitation

Sinking under a wave of trash

Benin’s local governments are unprepared to deal with a serious problem of uncollected trash

Climate change

Engulfed by the lake

Fishermen on Zambia’s Lake Kariba are drowning in growing numbers

Marginalisation

No place for the Twa

Burundi’s smallest ethnic group fights for a voice

Refugees

Earning a living with pottery

To escape poverty, a young refugee started to sell self-made pottery in Uganda and succeeded

Obituary

Our correspondent was found dead

We mourn the death of our Zambian colleague Humphrey Nkonde

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