Hintergrund

Britain’s East India Company ran a highly profitable, but brutally exploitative narco-state in the Gangetic plains and exported highly addictive opium to China.

The transatlantic slave trade had a devastating impact on Africa and affects the continent to this day. The fact that the Arab slave trade also took a terrible toll on millions of Africans is often overlooked.

The Economic Community of West African States is in crisis. It should aim to foster economic integration of its member states. The integration process of the European Union might give an idea of how that could be achieved.

The British and French forms of domination in West Africa were not identical, but ultimately quite similar.

Hichilema government achieves slow, but steady progress towards making burden of sovereign debt bearable.

Poverty has an impact on the prevalence of TB and has even contributed to the evolution of drug-resistant strains

In order to reduce Africa’s dependence on global supply chains, Germany is working with partners to support local vaccine production.

Four decades after the green revolution, the associated environmental problems are becoming increasingly obvious.

Sudan is currently experiencing the world’s largest displacement crisis. Since April 2023, around 10 million people have fled their homes. Many now face the disastrous consequences of worldwide cutbacks in development and humanitarian aid.

Year after year, valuable ecosystems are destroyed by wildfires. This drives climate change and decimates biodiversity. Slash-and-burn agriculture is partly to blame.