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The prickly pear cactus can serve as a source of food and water for livestock.

Agriculture

Cactuses as a lifeline for livestock farmers

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by Nyasha J. Kavhiza
A Maya Train carriage arrives at a station in Campeche, Mexico.

Organised crime

Train of destruction

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by Sonja Peteranderl
Some people are spending great amounts of money and time on saving biodiversity.

Good News

Protecting biodiversity and world heritage sites

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by D+C / E+Z
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, and Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister.

Governance

Lessons on democracy from South Africa and Ethiopia

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by Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet
Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin in September.

International relations

Why India and China are realigning their relations

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
A mural on a wall at Punjab University in Lahore depicts the burden placed on the poor to sustain the lifestyle of the elite.

Social sector

Pakistan’s social divide

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by Abdur Rehman Cheema
A 2018 election poster from Cameroon. This year, 92-year-old President Biya, the world’s oldest head of state, is running for office for the eighth time.

Governance

How fossilised, power-hungry men keep Africa in a stranglehold

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by Baba G. Jallow
Students being taught inside a half-collapsed building at Shuhada-Alwahdah School in Ibb province, Yemen.

Education

Overcrowded classrooms, outdoor lessons or no school at all

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by Abdulrahman Al-Humaidi
A view of Chukudum, where the twins were born.

New beginnings

Two sisters, two paths

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
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