Governance
Higher learning

“Education must not be for sale”

Chile’s poor youth suffer in the privatised education system

Ebola vaccine proven effective in clinical trial

This public-health success was driven by international, multi-sector cooperation rather than by market forces

Comment

Lessons from the USA

The widening gap between national and individual well-being might explain a large part of the US election results

eHealth Africa

Fighting polio in spite of ­insurgency

Vaccination programme in Nigeria’s crisis-torn Borno state

Elections matter – in Gambia, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire

ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, is becoming a beacon of democracy

Africa

Disasters waiting to happen

Failure to expand formal youth employment in Africa will mean more unrest, more migration, more crime and more religious extremism

Gender

Women want careers

Young Egyptian women do not accept traditional family roles

Egypt

Still aspiring to ­change the world

Six years after the Arab spring, things look worse than ever to young Egyptians

International community should act to prevent atrocities

Signs of imminent genocide in South Sudan

Popular uprising

A triumph for young people

Burkinabe youth united to end the rule of President Blaise Compaoré

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.