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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
Facebook, Amazon und Google pay attention to Margrethe Vestager, the competition commissioner.

World order

“Teetering continent”

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by Dirk Messner
by Hans Dembowski
Mozambique primarily exports commodities: port of Maputo.

Trade

Moving away from simple commodity exports

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by Friedrich Kaufmann
by Winfried Borowczak
Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, visiting the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centre in the Rwandan capital Kigali in 2016.

EU Council presidency

Investing in the future

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by Gerd Müller
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