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Infrastructure in the Nairobi agglomeration mostly facilitates motorised traffic.

Non-motorised transport

Expand sidewalks and bike lanes

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by Nicholas Hollmann
A fanatic tossing a tear-gas canister towards police during anti-Asia-Bibi protests in Karachi in February 2019.

Human rights

Battle cry “blasphemy”

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by Thomas Krapf
Brazil’s president is not interested in accurate assessments of rain-forest destruction’s true extent.

Independent media

Why brown envelopes are harmful

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by Hans Dembowski
Container ship docked in Cotonou.

Port of Cotonou

Competitive squall at the pier

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by Karim Okanla
A train approaching Maai Mahiu station on the way to Naivasha.

Infrastructure

Railway to nowhere

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Nairobi’s new freight terminus.

Development finance

Massive Chinese lending

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Cavies are sold for food at a market in Ecuador.

Livestock

Guinea pigs for Africa

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by Frank Odenthal
Kyrgyzstan is Central Asia’s only parliamentary democracy: soldiers taking part in independence-day celebrations in Bishkek, the capital, in 2018.

Civil liberties

Live up to the rhetoric

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by Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson
Gillets Jaunes protest in Toulouse in early 2019.

Social protection

No longer convincing trendsetter

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by Praveen Jha
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