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In brief
Livestock
Damilola Oyedele

Cattle in the cassava field

Desperate herders terrify Nigerian farmers

Disease control
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

No water, no hygiene

Trachoma is a blinding disease that thrives under conditions of poor sanitation and hygiene

Political jargon
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A contentious term

“Marshall Plan” means different things to different people

India
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Brutally divisive

That Prime Minister Modi’s made Yogi Adityanath chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is proof of his supremacist extremism

Authoritarianism
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Post-referendum repression

After a close – and disputed – referendum victory, Turkey’s government is running yet more purges of the police and civil service

International cooperation
Frannie Leautier

Continent of opportunity

The African Development Bank considers the German proposal to launch a Marshall Plan a step in the right direction

Debt relief
Linda Engel

G20 plans do not go far enough

The number of critically indebted countries has risen

Refugees
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Universal responsibility

In Lebanon, hundreds of thousands of Syrians are living in poverty without rights

Youth
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Radicalism is not necessarily bad

Africa’s young generation needs opportunities, and the structural reasons of unemployment must be tackled

G20
Adolf Kloke-Lesch

Sustainably overstrained?

G20 needs to reaffirm the universality of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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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”