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Inter-faith dialogue helps: Pope Francis visiting Bangui’s Central Mosque in November. To his right: Tidiani Moussa Naibi, the mosque’s imam.

Central Africa

Unprotected civilians

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by Theresa Krinninger
US pilots testing a drone.

Fragile states

New spaces of violence in ungoverned places

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
African women demonstrating in Nairobi against female genital mutilation and other forms of violence.

Female Genital Mutilation

100 million women affected

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by Idah Nabateregga
Renewable energy industries generate jobs worldwide. Solar panels on the Beirut River in Lebanon.

Employment

Digitalisation revolutionises work

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by Hans-Christoph Neidlein
German and Palestinian pupils play together in the Dar Al-Kalima School in Bethlehem in 2011.

Cooperation

Apple tree versus tanks

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by Martin Verfürth
Raising awareness in the Cape Town agglomeration.

HIV/AIDS

Halfway there

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by Theresa Krinninger
Festivities in 2013 marking the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis, Tunisia.

Democracy

A long way to go

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by Ellen Thalman
Islam has been taught for centuries at Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

Islamic religious teaching

A mixture of elementary and Koran school

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
David Coca Coyo plans later to return to his home village and teach in Quechua.

Education

Bilingual teacher training

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by Linda Vierecke
by Christoph Peters
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