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Globalisation

Growing inequality and environmental dangers

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by Jürgen Wiemann

26.01.2017

Rally opposing re-burial of Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator, on Manila’s National Heroes Cemetery in November.

Extrajudicial killings

National suicide

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by Alan C. Robles

Alan C. Robles

25.01.2017

Personality cult: the president’s face on a sweet.

North Africa

Defining the nation

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22.01.2017

Self-obsessed: Gerd Wilders, Marine Le Pen and Frauke Petry in Koblenz in January.

Europe

Divided continent

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19.01.2017

Unfulfilled promise: immediately after winning the referendum on EU membership, leaders of the Vote Leave campaign backed away from their promise of more funding for Britain’s National Health Service.

Endangered pluralism

Damaged democracy

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by Hans Dembowski

18.01.2017

Government soldiers in South Sudan in October 2016.

Human rights

„Sliding towards genocide“

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by Reverend Peter Tibi

13.01.2017

Mobile phone and social media use generate large volumes of data: mobile phone user in northern Kenya.

Technology

Responsible use of data

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by Tobias Knobloch

by Julia Manske

11.01.2017

Old and new elite: Elizabeth II welcomes Namibian president Hage Geingob and his wife in Buckingham Palace.

SADC

Nostalgia and empty promises

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by Henning Melber

10.01.2017

Isra and Kholoud are two young Palestinian women who take part in a course run by Youth for Development.

Education

Hope and employment

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Mona Naggar

31.12.2016

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