In brief

Researchers in the south-east African country have detected alarming resistance of pathogens to important tuberculosis drugs. Effective diagnostics are more important than ever.

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

The novel “Desertion” by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah is set in Zanzibar. It is a tale of resistance to social and cultural norms and of the power of love, interwoven in historical, political and cultural contexts.

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

How the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is working with partners to promote local vaccine production in Africa.

The causes of the huge forest fires in Latin America are manifold. Disaster expert Michel De L’Herbe calls for affected countries to prepare better and cooperate more closely.

Tamikrest combines the music of the Tuareg with elements of Western rock. The band chooses guitars over guns to fight for the cause of a community that has been oppressed in the Sahara for decades.

Glyphosate/Roundup is a prominent recent example of a pesticide causing controversy

While the fight against many neglected tropical diseases continues to receive too little support, the situation with dengue has changed. One major reason for this is that the disease is now increasingly recognised as a problem in richer countries too.