A fast-paced soccer game in Zambia.
Iain Lindsay
Getting involved in sports-based projects offers young Zambians a sense of community and helps them to build new support systems.
Syrian refugees on the Jordanian side of the border wait to enter a medical clinic in March 2017.
Jamal Nasrallah/EPA
Employing Syrian refugees is not the same as protecting them.
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We need environmentally-adjusted measures that don’t just focus on material goods.
Drying coffee beans in Bugitimwa village, in the area of Mt. Elgon, eastern Uganda.
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In the 1980’s Uganda was one of the largest coffee exporters in the world, far ahead of Vietnam which hardly exported any. Now the tables have turned raising interesting comparative questions.
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Western countries are wising up to the fact that you have to deal with how the world is, not how you want it to be.
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Providing women with credit improves gender inequality.
President Jacob Zuma delivers his state of the nation address in Cape Town. Critics say he failed to galvanise the nation.
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South African President, Jacob Zuma, wasted lots of time and space in cheap politicking instead of galvanising South Africans to work together for a better future.
Inspecting seeds in Uganda. US development organisations need to understand that today there is considerably greater local expertise.
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US farmers and agribusiness can help themselves by helping Africa to meet its rapidly growing food needs.
Was World Vision Australia chief advocate Tim Costello right to say that Australia’s foreign aid spending was at its highest under Menzies, at 0.5% of gross national income?
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We check the facts on how Australia’s foreign aid spend has changed over time.
UNESCO-listed heritage site Machu Picchu attracts around 1,000 tourists a day.
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Is UNESCO’s prestigious lists of tangible and intangible heritage damaging the very existence of the sites on them?
Students protest outside the parliament in South Africa. The protest is seen as part of a bigger political crisis.
REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
South Africa’s economic challenges of 2016 are largely a reflection of its inability to change in the light of global shocks.
Time for closer inspection.
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There’s a huge divide in thinking between academia and international development on the role of the internet in economic growth.
2016 was a year of mixed fortunes in the development course of Africa.
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The ‘Africa Rising’ narrative was disturbed in 2016 by a combination of factors. But the continent is still on firm economic development footing.
Timber stockpiled along a logging road.
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A new mapping study shows that roads have sliced and diced almost the entire land surface of Earth, leaving huge areas prone to illegal logging, mining and hunting.
Several studies have revealed forced land acquisitions in Indonesia lead to conflicts and loss of income of displaced persons.
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Indonesia is pushing for more infrastructure development projects. But the people relocated to make way for these projects have very little power to ensure their livelihoods are secure.
Giraffes’ future is much less secure than many people had imagined.
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Are giraffes really facing extinction? The decline of these beloved animals - and many others – has been hidden in plain sight as Africa builds ever more roads, railways and cities.
A line of Syrian refugees crossing the border of Hungary and Austria on their way to Germany Hungary Central Europe September.
Mstyslav Chernov
International institutions make up a stage on which States vehemently and openly denounce world problems and suffering while they actually have no intention to act.
Wildlife in the Athi-Kaputiei ecosystem with new development in the background.
Flickr/Kamweti Mutu
Athi-Kaputiei is close to Nairobi where undeveloped land is exceedingly scarce and expensive. This has made it a powerful magnet for people.
Mozambique has recorded significant poverty reduction in recent years.
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Mozambique has made significant progress in its fight against poverty despite recent economic and political challenges
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Trade incentives and more inclusive union leadership could improve working conditions in the garment industry – particularly for women.