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Precious asset: technicians in Nairobi with a carton of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.

Intellectual property

INGO opposes vaccine patents

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by Marion Lieser
Pursuing geostrategic interests, western powers are still involved in former colonies’ politics: Emmanuel Macron arriving in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, in June 2020 to attend a meeting of the regional organisation G5 Sahel.

International relations

Postcolonial perspectives must be taken seriously

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by Myriell Fußer
by Adrian Schlegel
by Tanja Matheis
by Julia Fritzsche
by Florian Vitello
Young Kenyans go to school, but employment opportunities remain rare.

Identity politics

Why Kenya’s president has fallen out with his deputy

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus, gestures after receiving a vaccine shot in Cape Town in May.

Health care

Africans are learning lessons from other world regions

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by Benjamin M. Kagina
by Hans Dembowski
Solar-power facility in northern Chile.

Climate change

Why Chile can set an example in environmental protection

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by Waldo Soto Bruna
Groundnut farmers have suffered major yield losses in Zambia.

Agriculture

Crop insurance and weather forecasting are closely linked

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by Till Below
by Nkumbu Nalwimba

Collaborative Climate Action

Aspiration enhancing cooperation

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by Monika Zimmermann
Bengali letters used in non-formal Adivasi school.

Minorities

An Indian Adivasi community is divided by scripts

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by Boro Baski
Boro Baski
Campaigning in Pittsburgh last year: Biden is known to like trains and, as a senator, used to commute by rail for decades from Delaware to Washington for 36 years.

USA

Scaling up the USA’s climate ambitions

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by Katie Cashman
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