D+C Development and Cooperation

09/09/2025

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe’s healthcare sector is chronically underfunded.

09/09/2025

🇬🇭 💊 This month's good news concern Ghana's mining industry and HIV treatment in Africa. We publish them in advance in our biweekly newsletter, which also contains detailed analyses, reading recommendations and calls for proposals for the global development community. Sign up for free: http://spkl.io/6181AuEkb

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The two pieces of good news this month are about the use of locally produced HIV drugs and tests in Africa and reforms in Ghana’s mining sector.

08/09/2025

🌱 Our era is marked by increasing ecological destruction. Some devastating trends are global and threaten the future of humankind as such.

We've collected all D+C articles on the matter for you here. 👉 http://spkl.io/6186AP58w

08/09/2025

A simple idea is helping to combat plastic waste at the famous Victoria Falls, writes Zimbabwean journalist Lungelo Ndhlovu in this week's "Nowadays" column:

Tourism brings over a million visitors to Victoria Falls each year, but their plastic waste threatens wildlife and wetlands. A local start-up is turning the tide with refillable bottles and clean water stations.

07/09/2025

💥 Tariffs hurt more the more dependence there is.

07/09/2025

The world is their plaything, and their well connected: Here's how the autocrats of the world seek to enhance their power and wealth. 👇

Autocracies work together worldwide to stay in power. They flood the public sphere with targeted disinformation in order to destroy democratic discourse and impose their own narrative on the world, as Anne Applebaum argues in her book “Autocracy, Inc.”.

06/09/2025

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

We would be pleased if our recommendations inspired you to read, watch or listen to them. 👉 http://spkl.io/6183APeLx

06/09/2025

"This identity is not just a label, but a lived experience centred around our nomadic pastoral lifestyle," Rael Nkoi Lomoti, a Turkana, told D+C. 👇

What does it mean to be Turkana today? Rael Nkoi Lomoti is the founder of Turkana’s first girls’ football team and an advocate for education, gender equality and climate justice in her community. She spoke with Katharina Wilhelm Otieno.

05/09/2025

No small numbers and one more thing to fuel the rivalry. 👇

05/09/2025

🤝 Germany should work more with the private sector when it comes to furthering development: That's the conclusion of Simon Züfle and Philipp von Carlowitz. 👇

The cuts that Western countries are currently making to their development budgets are hitting Africa particularly hard. More people are looking towards the private sector to fill the gaps. A comparison of the Africa strategies of four European countries shows that Germany in particular does not yet ...

04/09/2025

💡 Did you know that the Maasai have immense and precious medical knowledge? So do many other Indigenous groups, by the way. Check out or latest Monthly to find out what that knowledge is, and what else the world can learn from Indigenous wisdom. 👉 http://spkl.io/6183APuev

04/09/2025

💡 The world could learn from Indigenous wisdom.