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Global Development
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Cattle, crops and ancient olive groves: Lebanon’s farmers ‘lose everything’ to Israeli bombs
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Thousands of hectares of fertile land, including olive trees that have survived for millennia, have been destroyed in the country’s agricultural heartland
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Global Development
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‘Levels are dropping’: drought saps Zambia and Zimbabwe of hydropower
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Vast human-made Lake Kariba is at near-record low, causing daily power cuts and devastating two African economies
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‘I went to war. It was a nightmare’: how children have become ‘cannon fodder’ in DRC’s endless conflict
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Driven mostly by poverty, children as young as 10 have been enlisted by the country’s militias, while NGOs try to reach and reintegrate those who escape
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Global Development
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Rounded up, massacred and posted on social media: can Ethiopia bring justice for atrocities in Tigray?
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The country is about to start investigating crimes reported in a brutal regional war. But trust is at an all-time low and survivors feel forgotten
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School-leaver at 11, domestic slave at 12, gang member at 15: how a missing birth certificate derailed a life
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Unable to access her documentation, Esther* found herself trapped in a spiral of abuse typical of Kenya’s child labour problem
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A ninth woman has died reporting on the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s war on journalists must end | Kiran Nazish
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Warnings are not enough. After Victoria Roshchyna’s death, we need zero tolerance of the detention and brutal treatment of female reporters
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Global Development
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‘You can’t even wash your hands’: is a global industrial hub responsible for the destruction of Mexico’s Atoyac River?
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Pollution from a cluster of foreign factories is contributing to a threat to public health, allege campaigners, who say the country is prioritising economic growth over the environment
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Global Development
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No, Robert Jenrick, former colonies do not owe a ‘debt of gratitude’ for Britain’s legacy of brutality and exploitation | Kenneth Mohammed
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As a historian, the UK conservative party leadership candidate should know that the only debt owed is one of accountability and reparation
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‘Hair is more than strands. It symbolises life’: the braids that bind an Ecuadorian community
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In Otavalo the men, as well as women, see their long hair as integral to the beliefs and culture of the Kichwa people
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‘I can’t stop now’: Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law forces climate activist into exile
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Already targeted for opposing the EACOP oil pipeline, claims that he was gay forced Nyombi Morris to flee
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