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In the Tafara settlement in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, residents are working to improve their living conditions.

Informal settlements

How marginalised urban communities in Africa are driving innovation

Africa’s cities are growing fast, and so is the need for inclusive, community-driven innovation. Residents of informal settlements are already developing practical solutions to the challenges they face, from the provision of basic services to climate resilience. When governments, researchers and communities collaborate, the potential for meaningful urban change is enormous.

by Teurai Anna Nyamangara

23.01.2026

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Refugees continue to risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea.

Book

A prayer on the night before fleeing across the sea

What must be going through the mind of a desperate father who has been forced to flee his beloved Syrian homeland and expose his small son to the dangers of the sea? That is the question Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini asks in his brief text “Sea Prayer”.

by Dagmar Wolf

22.01.2026

“Tagesschau”, the German-language news programme with the greatest reach, devoted more airtime to sport in the first half of 2022 than to all the countries of the Global South put together.

Media

Prioritising royals over hunger: how media neglect the Global South

The 21st century’s deadliest war to date began around five years ago in northern Ethiopia. Many in the West have been all but unaware of it – because the Global South hardly figures at all in leading media reports. A broad alliance of organisations and individuals from Germany, Austria and Switzerland is now demanding that more attention be focused on the global reality.

by Ladislaus Ludescher

21.01.2026

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Men of the Didinga ethnic group face the challenge of combining traditional values with modern concepts.

Masculinity

How young South Sudanese men navigate between tradition and modernity

by Alba Nakuwa

26.11.2025

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Helder Barbalho, governor of the Brazilian state of Pará, at the U.N. Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil.

International cooperation

Brazil continues to campaign for climate action and cooperation

by Eva-Maria Verfürth

25.11.2025

Entrepreneurship

Building bridges between Zimbabwe’s diaspora and businesses at home

by Lungelo Ndhlovu

24.11.2025

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In the Digital Monthly Edition 1/2026

Aiming for a better world

Demonstrations against the government of former Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Lima in 2023.

SDGs

How Peru has progressed despite political turmoil

Peru is the South American country that has made the most progress on the SDGs in the past decade. But this development has occurred under improbable conditions: weak institutions, frequent government turnover and high levels of informality.

by Javier Bronfman

by Eva-Maria Verfürth

16.01.2026

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The SDG’s core vision: an opportunity for development cooperation

The realisation of environmental protection alongside development lies at the heart of the SDGs. Refocusing on this core vision gives an opportunity, not only in development cooperation, to rethink the issue and embrace a positive vision of the future.

by Estelle Herlyn

14.01.2026

2030 Agenda in numbers

Global development goals: progress and setbacks

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the most comprehensive yardstick for measuring how the world is developing. They came into force 10 years ago and will remain in place until 2030. Here is their current status in facts and figures.

by Isah Shafiq