Nassir Djafari’s novel “Mahtab” tells the story of a migrant woman from Iran who makes Frankfurt her home town

On 27 to 28 July 2023, the second Russia-Africa Summit was held in Saint Petersburg. Here are excerpts of selected pieces of African media coverage on the meeting

In “The First Woman”, Ugandan author Jennifer Makumbi portrays the many facets of feminism in Uganda

Russia’s war of aggression is causing significant greenhouse-gas emissions – and revealing the connection between climate action and security policy

At the midway point to achieving the SDGs, the number of starving and extremely poor people is rising once again, civil-society organisations lament

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

So far, reforms do not adequately protect women from violence

Krupa Ge’s debut novel “What we know about her” explores women’s fates in Tamil Nadu from the 1940s to late 2019

High fertility correlates with poverty – and compounds it

Producing sal-leaf tableware is no longer only an informal micro-scale business in India