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Our Land is not your Solution
The fairy tale of climate neutrality using the example of Papua New Guinea 

Large corporations and governments in the Global North have long been considering how they can improve their carbon footprint. The logical way would be to drastically reduce emissions. But another method [ >> More information ]

ARTE Re: Me and Selenskyj
New President – new hope?

A country that has been at war for over five years overwhelmingly elects an actor and entrepreneur without any prior political experience to become president. That is exactly what happened in [ >> More information ]

Dam break in Brazil
What is Germany’s fault?

What does an environmental disaster in Brazil have to do with consumers in Europe? Claudia Müller-Hoff thinks there is a lot. The Berlin lawyer sees direct connections between a dam break [ >> More information ]

Hoping for rain
Drought in Somaliland

Somaliland is an independent but internationally not admitted state in East Afrika since 1991 with 3 million inhabitants. Because of the ongoing drought the people are threatened by hunger: The reserves [ >> More information ]

Our forest – our future
Save Cambodias Wildlife

  Our forest – our future: Save Cambodias Wildlife In the north-eastern part of Cambodia vast woodlands are beeing cut down to make way for rubber plantations owned by multinational corporations. This [ >> More information ]

Uganda
Fred Batales disability project

Uganda: Fred Batales disability project – Deutsche Welle / Africa on the move 04.12.2015 In Uganda people with disabilities are stigmatised. Fred Batale took discriminacion as a challenge and started the Disability [ >> More information ]

Sweet idea
baking to counter unemployment in Uganda

Sweet idea: baking to counter unemployment in Uganda – Deutsche Welle / Africa on the move 30.11.2015 Harriet Kakonge’s baking classes are giving unemployed youth the hope of a better future. In a [ >> More information ]

Doreen Omondi
Empowerment through soccer

Doreen Omondi: Empowerment through soccer – Deutsche Welle / Africa on the move 20.11.2015 Doreen Nabwire Omondi is a successful professional soccer player. She now devotes much of her time to an [ >> More information ]

Kenya
Boniface Mwangi never shuts up

Kenya: Boniface Mwangi never shuts up – Deutsche Welle / Africa on the move 14.12.2015 Boniface Mwangi is a successful photojournalist in Kenya. He had his breakthrough with his photos of the [ >> More information ]

Brasil: A one-way ride to poverty
Raw materials for the German automotive industry

The wealth of north-eastern Brasil is carried off in an endless line of train loads transporting iron ore for the German automotive industry. Brasil’s Carajas region has been suffering from persistent [ >> More information ]