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Not many women are as successful as Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (right). She is the founder and Managing Director of India’s premier biotechnology company, Biocon Limited. In 2006, she and Bollywood star actor Shah Rukh Khan (l.) launched an innovative cancer drug.

Financial inclusion

Investing in women

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by Jen Braswell
by Aviva Freudmann
Not only young Nigerians use smartphones.

Nigeria’s ICT market place

Success due to combination of factors

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by Johannes Paha
by Lydia Wolter
Kumbirai Mapfumo’s smokeless kitchen fire means her health risks are reduced.

Energy

Why biogas is good for the environment

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by Farai Shawn Matiashe
Female migrant domestic workers demonstrating against exploitation and discrimination in Beirut 2015.

Arab region

Black people are discriminated against in the MENA region

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
A new water pipeline will improve lives in Tanzanian village in measurable ways.

Aid effectiveness

Digital tools serve evaluation purposes

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by Jochen Kluve
by Hans Dembowski
Superheroes Ananse, Oya and Ol'moran of Leti Arts’ new game Africa's Legends Reawakening.

Gaming industry

The opportunity is right now

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by Eyram Tawia
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Huawei managers at an event to promote a new mobile device in Nairobi in 2019

Cyberspace

Defining the new digital world order

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by Charles Martin-Shields
Diversity has increased, and so have tuition fees: University of California, Berkeley.

Diversity

Why racist attitudes lead to neglection of common good

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by Hans Dembowski
Government as a family affair: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (left) greeting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (right) with another brother, Chamal Rajapaksa (who now is serving as irrigation minister) looks on during an official ceremony in August 2020.

Online media

How Sri Lanka keeps the press muzzled

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by Arjuna Ranawana
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