Governance

The largest single donor worldwide has halted its development cooperation: funding for USAID has been frozen for 90 days. These actions by the US president are already costing human lives. The global community must save what it can.

After years of legal disputes, Malawi has enforced a ban on thin single-use plastics. The challenge now lies in consistent implementation to address pollution, protect ecosystems and align with global environmental efforts.

At the first D+C Roundtable, we spoke to private sector experts about the opportunities and challenges of private sector involvement in development financing – a topic becoming more important given the current decline in public development financing.

Ghanaian scholar assesses relevance of USAID and ECOWAS

The situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is escalating once again. It has the potential to drag the entire region into it. The global community must take a stand, not least because the conflict centres on resources we all rely on.

The separatist conflict in the Anglophone part of Cameroon has been going on for years. School operations are constantly disrupted, schools are destroyed or house refugees or the military. The effects on young people are devastating.

In Cameroon, hundreds of thousands of children have not been able to go to school for years due to the violence in the English-speaking regions of the country. The fact that the EU is providing more funding gives hope – but is far from sufficient.

US President Donald Trump had been in office for less than one week when his administration put the work of USAID on ice. The destruction can be slowed, but no longer stopped. What German development policy can do now.

Our author expects Ghana’s government to finally rise to its responsibilities.

Informal traders start reconstruction immediately