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World domination: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of tech-giant Facebook

Libra: How Zucked are we really?

The brand new digital currency championed by Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has serious implications for data privacy and regulation

A deal reached at the UN’s COP24 climate summit earlier this month was criticised for not matching the ambition of the world’s most vulnerable countries. (Eric Vidal/Reuters)

NGOs launch legal action against France over climate

The NGOs allege that France, where greenhouse gas emissions rose again in 2015, has not met its short-term climate objectives

Chickens raised in crowded spaces are likely to get diseases. But houses that have room for the broilers to move, are ventilated and temperature-regulated result in healthier chickens. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Poor practices put chicken industry in danger

Poor practices in the industry lead to disease, use of antibiotics and contamination of water and soil

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Editorial: Power corrupts ― even in our respected NGOs

‘As the M&G turns its focus to allegations of abuse of power in the NGO space, our work has been met with hostility. And it has left us perplexed’

Enabling the public sphere

Changes of tectonic proportions are happening in the social and development spheres across Africa.

The media gives all players in a democracy a way of participating in a national dialogue.

Yes, NGOs seek publicity and recourse to law

Several government and social leaders have recently accused civil society organisations of playing foul, writes Bonita Meyersfeld.

Vladimir Putin.

Putin’s new NGO law seen as campaign to supress dissent

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a law which will tighten controls on civil right groups funded from abroad.