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Participant in Aurat March in Islamabad in 2019.

Gender rights

Pakistan’s politically assertive women

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by Maryam S. Khan
Drought in Afghanistan: income opportunities in agriculture are disappearing.

Climate Foreign Policy

The climate crisis is exacerbating hardship in conflict areas

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by Corina Pfitzner
In Uganda, it’s not just the CV that counts: workers at a hydropower plant in Kiryandongo.

Working world

When qualifications don’t decide your career

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

D+C/E+Z

Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

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by D+C / E+Z
The South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit, a Dinka, relies on Christian faith as an identity marker to unite his country.

Nation building

A challenge for a young country

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by Alba Nakuwa
https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24

Sustainable Development Goals

Inequality is getting worse according to UNDP

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by Anna Sophie Schmitz
Immediately after the storm: laundry is hung up to dry on destroyed power lines in southern Malawi.

Natural disasters

Consequences of cyclone Freddy

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by Christina Chilimba
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes Kenyan president William Ruto at the Italy-Africa conference in January.

Biofuels

Italy’s castor-oil plans for Africa

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by Wanjohi Kabukuru
Hindu-supremacist violence flares up regularly: riot damages in Delhi in early 2020.

Islamophobia

Messages of hate and Hindu dominance

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by D+C / E+Z
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