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Processing and selling cassavas leaves can provide an income to women in Burundi.

Women’s independence

What Sarah makes before Burundi wakes: the business of cassava leaves

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by Mireille Kanyange
Protests to mark International Women’s Day in Santiago de Chile in 2025.

Novel

One of many marginalised workers speaks out

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by Jörg Döbereiner
A young man is arrested during the protests in Kenya in 2024.

Rules-based world order

Whose rights does international law protect?

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by Shakira Wafula

Climate change

How a new carbon trading system could benefit Zimbabwean communities

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu
“Bitcoin accepted” – in some restaurants in cities such as Kampala, customers can pay with Bitcoin.

Digital payment

How Bitcoin can be used to drive development

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
Progress has been made in the fight against leprosy and malaria.

Good News

Chile eliminates leprosy, vaccinations help fight malaria

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by D+C / E+Z
For farming communities in Uganda, failed seasons can quickly become debt crises.

Climate change

When failed harvests turn into debt in Uganda

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by Cinderella Ayebare

Development assistance

Malawi’s health sector has seen good progress – now it’s falling apart

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
An anti-corruption demonstration in Abuja in 2016. Ten years on, the situation has not improved significantly.

Corruption

Protecting the people who know where the money went

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by Obongodu Paul Unanam
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