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Gender equality

How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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Lesson in the Glory Future Model School in Dhaka.

Primary education

School for slum children

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by Tom Frenzel
by Svetla Dimitrov
by Till Voigts
A woman casting her vote in panchayat elections in Assam on 6 February.

Rural democracy

Living in the villages

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by Ipsita Sapra
“Acleda currently has ­234 branch offices.”

Institutions

From NGO to commercial bank

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by Anja Strautz
South Africa’s new rand bills first came into circulation in November last year.

Editorial

Specific business models

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by Hans Dembowski
African innovation: money transfer by mobile phone.

Finance

Moving forward

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by Geoffrey Muzigiti
by Oliver Schmidt
“Many people think that the Muslim Brothers were the last to get to the revolutionary train – and the first to jump off”: young revolutionaries on Tahrir Square before the fall of Mubarak.

Arab spring

“Jobs are hard to find”

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by Yasser Alwan
Credit cards matter to retailers and their customers – shopping for electronic goods in Accra.

Financial sector

Aspiring to be a continental beacon

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by Horatius Egua
Women must not work only in the informal sector: selling snacks in a market in the north of Cameroon.

Private Sector

Untapped business potential

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by Marie Pardey
Remote sensing lab at the Uiversity of Ghana

Education

“Out of touch”

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by Floreana Miesen
African nations are ageing too.

Comment

Ageing societies

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by Michael Bünte