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BROXX rents out off-grid solar systems to poor Kenyan households. Oikocredit is a shareholder.

Oikocredit

Fostering sustainable projects and businesses

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Sabine Balk

11.04.2017

Traditional Senegalese fishing boats.

Ecology

Unsustainable business

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09.04.2017

Flooded street in Jakarta.

Environment

City shores

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by Hans Dembowski

08.04.2017

President Hassan Rouhani wants to be re-elected in May.

Authoritarian rule

Stick to principles

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by Ellen Thalman

05.04.2017

Burundi is a troubled country – protest rally in Bujumbura in February.

Crises

Neglected by the world

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04.04.2017

Many questions concerning social standards remain unanswered at the young AIIB.

AIIB

Lacking standards

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02.04.2017

Lagos seen from the lagoon.

Environment

Coastal location

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by Olamide Udoma-Ejorh

30.03.2017

Small-island states are vulnerable in particular: damage caused by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu in 2015.

Nansen Initiative

The Nansen Initiative’s Protection Agenda

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Sabine Balk

29.03.2017

East Africa’s largest port Mombasa in Kenya serves as an important logistic hub for the entire region, including the landlocked countries of Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.

Infrastructure

Trade needs ports

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by Kacana Sipangule

28.03.2017

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