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Every day, Congolese refugees, mostly women and children, arrive at the Musenyi site. The site has a capacity of 10,000 people, but by the end of April it was hosting more than 15,000 refugees. Photo: Dorine Niyungeko/ MSF
BURUNDI

How to respond to sexual assault survivors

Many women and girls have survived sexual violence perpetrated by armed groups and armed forces in DRC, when fleeing to Burundi, and incidents have also been reported in the…

  • Catherine Poulton
4 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
COVID 19

Khaya Sithole: Lessons to be learned from partitions

South Africa’s economic, racial and social divides invite unrest that will leave us all worse off

  • Khaya Sithole
9 min read
Well intended: Shoppers outside a retail store in Wellington, New Zealand. The country’s wellbeing budget has been lauded, but if its economy does not grow it could face problems. (David Gray/Reuters)
AIR POLLUTION

GDP still best indicator of wellbeing

New Zealand now has an alternative measure that’s less about money than people, but it may be missing the mark

  • Bjorn Lomborg 1
5 min read