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Political parties use AI to create posters and leaflets.

Politics

How artificial intelligence is transforming democracy

AI is changing the electoral process. Voters may receive calls from digital avatars, and even the deceased can deliver endorsements. At the same time, disinformation and hate speech are on the rise. Can democracy survive in the age of AI?

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by Katja Muñoz
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
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Since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, hundreds of people have been killed by mines and unexploded ordnance. Mine clearance services, such as those provided by the teams of civil society organisation The HALO Trust, remove explosive remnants from the earth.

Conflicts

More landmine casualties, less humanitarian aid

As more and more people worldwide are being killed by industrially produced landmines, international funding for mine clearance operations faces an uncertain future.

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by Kim Berg
Experts from The HALO Trust educate schoolchildren in Idlib province about the dangers posed by mines and unexploded ordnance.

Humanitarian aid

Mines: a lethal obstacle to Syria’s reconstruction

Not only has Syria been ravaged by civil war, it is also contaminated with lethal hazards lurking underground: mines and unexploded ordnance. A visit to a mine clearance operation in Idlib province.

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by Kim Berg
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Gender equality

How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu
Using AI effectively and responsibly is a challenge for media professionals worldwide.

Media

How Indonesia’s media landscape is dealing with AI

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by Anastasya Andriarti

Technology

Why the Global South can’t afford tech pessimism

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by Payal Arora
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
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“D+C” magazine cover (04/2026) titled “AI is here. Are we ready?” featuring an illustration of a circuit-patterned humanoid head emerging from a globe-like sphere with a world map.
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AI is here. Are we ready?

Political parties use AI to create posters and leaflets.
Politics

How artificial intelligence is transforming democracy

AI is changing the electoral process. Voters may receive calls from digital avatars, and even the deceased can deliver endorsements. At the same time, disinformation and hate speech are on the rise. Can democracy survive in the age of AI?

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by Katja Muñoz
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
AI can boost participation, but it can also facilitate manipulation and threaten democracies.
Artificial Intelligence

The future is still ours to shape

Humanity is entering a new reality. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will change our lives but how – and who will be in charge.

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Should Africa Invest more in exportable applications or data centers?
Digital economy

How will Africa make use of AI?

Africa’s competitive advantage in artificial intelligence lies not in owning billion-dollar infrastructure but in exporting intelligence.

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by Roger B. Jantio
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Good news and solution stories

From groundbreaking court rulings to inspiring projects – positive change is happening all the time. Find out how people drive progress.

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Sustainable agriculture

How farmers grow food without burning out their land

by Derick Matsengarwodzi 
Many people are still living in refugee camps, as here in the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle.

Conflict

The long aftermath of the war in northern Ethiopia

by Hafte Gebreselassie Gebrihet
Like-minded heads of state are supported by Donald Trump: Argentina’s President Javier Milei with the US President at the White House in October 2025.

Latin America

Trump’s vision to reclaim the “US backyard”

by André de Mello e Souza
Using AI effectively and responsibly is a challenge for media professionals worldwide.

Media

How Indonesia’s media landscape is dealing with AI

by Anastasya Andriarti
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In der Hindukusch-Himalaya-Region schmelzen die Gletscher
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Global environment

Restoring the planet’s environmental health is indispensable

Coal mine in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Decarbonisation

The fossil fuel reality behind the rhetoric of energy transition

by Pedro Alarcón
Small-scale miners at a riverbed on the outskirts of Harare.

Mining

How Zimbabwe’s gold rush is poisoning water

by Tsitsi Bhobo

Human-wildlife conflicts

Coexistence, not conflict

by Lameck Masina
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Plattenladen im Kenyatta-Markt in Nairobi
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Culture Special

Art with a developmental connection - compiled for you by the D+C editorial team.

Scene from the music video for “Maandamano” by Bien and Breeder LW.

Music

Dancing under tear gas

by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Refugees continue to risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea.

Book

A prayer on the night before fleeing across the sea

by Dagmar Wolf
At an event in São Paulo in 2024, women commemorate the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888.

Novel

How brave women fight back against oppression

by Sinikka Soriya Dombrowski
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Kinder auf einem staatlichen Schulhof in Nigeria.
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Education

Around the world, access to education must be made easier and its quality has to improve

Young people are getting their information from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and WhatsApp.

Media literacy

How Finland is preparing its citizens for a world swamped by fake news

by Kari Kivinen Eva-Maria Verfürth
Our author and a friend at their graduation ceremony at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Studying abroad

International degrees, national development

by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi

Inclusion

This Malawian invention rewrites the rules for blind students

by Lameck Masina
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Eine Sammlung von Geldscheinen und Münzen.
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Fiscal space

In view of multiple crises, state agencies must stay able to invest in crucial infrastructure and services

People in traditional attire celebrate the Yomari Punhi festival in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu in December.

Nepal and the SDGs

Dreams of economic prosperity and sustainable development

by Rukamanee Maharjan
Further investment in education and health is needed to fully realise the potential of young people in Africa.

Growth

What can help sub-Saharan Africa grow in an inclusive way?

by Aimé Muligo Sindayigaya
A mural on a wall at Punjab University in Lahore depicts the burden placed on the poor to sustain the lifestyle of the elite.

Social sector

Pakistan’s social divide

by Abdur Rehman Cheema
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A woman in Iran is protesting for her rights.
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Gender equality

Empowering women and girls is crucial to achieving gender justice.

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations from China in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Looking the other way is (not) an option

by Selmin Çalışkan
Torchlight procession in Kolkata in August 2025, on the anniversary of the brutal rape of a female doctor in the city.

Gender equality

A city where women need panic buttons is not a safe city

by Roli Mahajan
Women fighting against the terror militia ISIS in Iraq in 2014. The conflict has left both physical and emotional scars.

Empowerment

Supporting traumatised women and girls in Iraq

by Haneen Masoud
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Camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia, 2025.

International humanitarian system

The UN’s plan for humanitarian action in times of dwindling funds

by Martin Ohms Jessica Kühnle Matthias Amling
A guard stands in front of a prison cell at the CECOT high-security prison in Tecolotzco, El Salvador.

Human rights

Inside El Salvador’s prison system

by Julia Gavarrete
Artwork by Muthoni Nderitu

Humanitarian aid

The fact that funds are lacking to relieve suffering is scandalous

by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Sex workers and activists demonstrate on the eve of International Labour Day 2022 in Kolkata.

Labour rights

Selling sex, seeking respect: Life in India’s red-light districts

by Khushboo Srivastava
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