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Facebook page of the political movement Balai Citoyen (civic broom) in Burkina Faso.

New media technologies

Downsides of cyber politics

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Covering an NGO press conference in Accra in the context of the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2008.

INGOs

Best practices

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by Antonio Tujan Jr.
In Burundi, churches play an important role. Germany’s Civil Peace Service is working with them. The husbands of the widows gathered here in a church in Bujumbura died in the civil war.

Faith

How faith shapes politics

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by Bernhard Felmberg
Around 800 million people still live in extreme poverty. This Rwandan cowherd is one of them.

Sustainable Development Goals

Closing the gaps

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by Katja Dombrowski

In brief

News of the week

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Indigenous people chant and play instruments in a march for their rights in Santiago, Chile.

Indigenous peoples

Flawed implementation

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by Katja Dombrowski
ISIS fighters march in Raqqa, Syria in 2014.

Extremism

“Someone who kills innocent people will not become a martyr”

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

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News of the week

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Rural South African grandmother.

Social security

African pension patterns

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by Hans Dembowski
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