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In brief
Poverty alleviation
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

Reaching out to disadvantaged communities

Tangible Aga Khan programmes in East Africa

Multilateral order
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Fading western doctrines

German expert argues that the West has failed Libya and Iraq

Nutrition
Michaela Schaller

Climate-smart agriculture

Climate-smart agriculture ought to increase farmers´ income and resilience, and ought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Fair trade
Linda Engel

A drop in prices is hurting cocoa farmers

Sustainable cocoa cultivation improves living conditions for farmers

Refugees
Mahsa Motlagh

Water suitcase

When refugees leave an area, water demand is reduced there – but it increases in the places they go to

German ODA
Wolfram Klein

Lighthouse projects

Climate action and urban development are focal areas of Indo-German cooperation

Linguistics
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

European languages are dominant in Africa

Divisive and unifying: English or French as an official language

Popular music
Hubert Devonish

Jamaica’s nation language

How Jamaican Creole became the main language for artistic expression

Colonial legacy
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

CARICOM demands reparations

The basis of the debate for reparations is the “CARICOM Ten Point Plan for Reparatory Justice”

Racism
Joshua Kwesi Aikins

Laboratories of racist violence

German concentration camps in what is Namibia today were predecessors of the Nazis extermination camps

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”