South African President Cyril Ramaphosa receives reports of the of the state capture commission from Justice Raymond Zondo. The reports found exposed massive state corruption involving private individuals and companies.
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South Africans are actively challenging the criminalisation of the state. Many of the revelations about fraud, corruption and nepotism come from principled whistle-blowers within the state.
Afghan women have been banned from working by the Taliban, leaving thousands in poverty.
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Widows and single women are losing their homes, after being told they can no longer work by the Taliban, and are living on the poverty line.
Nigeria’s next President must unite Nigerians across party, religious and ethnic faultlines.
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The future and fate of Nigeria depends on the strength of character and dedication of the incoming president.
Coffee harvest at a farm in Zambia.
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The findings show that Zambian agricultural policies do reduce headcount poverty and inequality.
Where people live can determine their station in life.
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Lowering spatial inequalities can reduce economic and social inequities.
Workers sew garments at a textile factory in Cape Town, South Africa.
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South Africa’s world-leading wage inequality has as much to do with what bosses are doing as it does with how educated or experienced workers are.
South Africa’s agricultural sector has great potential to reduce poverty and create jobs.
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Year after year, challenges have distracted the country from its agricultural expansion goals.
A Turkish barbers’ shop in Berlin, where there’s a large Turkish community.
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Four-fifths of the first-generation Turkish men who came to Europe as guest-workers and ended up settling there lived below an income poverty line.
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As the year ends, how has New Zealand fared on global and domestic measurements, from social and economic freedoms to tackling poverty and homelessness?
A banner is displayed to advertise diesel available at a filling station in Lagos, Nigeria.
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From the economic perspective, the year 2022 will be remembered, by many Nigerians, as a time of dashed hopes and disappointments.
The planned expansion of Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) law to include people with mental illnesses whose death is not imminent has been delayed, but not cancelled.
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Canada’s planned expansion of MAID to mental illness is based on ignorance — if not outright disregard — of fundamental suicide prevention principles.
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A country of plenty like Australia should be able to ensure no one is denied their right to adequate food. But food insecurity is on the rise, and we aren’t even properly monitoring the problem.
Zawadi Msafiri is seen in a withered maize crop field in Kilifi County, Kenya. The drought situation started in 2021.
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The ravages of climate change and hunger do not occur in isolation, but are part of the system we have built.
Climate change is slowly getting on the political agenda in Africa.
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South Africans would rather see efforts go into tackling other challenges – but climate change will intensify those challenges.
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Widening access to free school meals would be an investment in England’s children.
Small-scale fishers in Durban are drawn to southern Africa’s sardine run.
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South Africa’s policies need to do more to protect vulnerable and marginalised small-scale fishers and fishing communities.
Charities often promote the benefits of child sponsorship. However, the practice perpetuates damaging patterns of thinking.
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Child sponsorship is often billed as a significant way of improving children’s lives. However, sponsorship is based on narratives that fail to address the role of rich countries in global poverty.
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Used wisely, public debt could be a way to improve things for our children and grandchildren.
Internally displaced people from the Dinka ethnic group at the Minkamman camp in South Sudan in 2014.
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In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
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Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.