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This year's FUF award winner David Isaksson in a bookstore in Ahmedaba. Image: Private.
Of: Karin Klerby
It is now clear that David Isaksson, editor-in-chief and founder of Global Bar Magazine, will receive the FUF Award 2025. The development magazine managed to exchange a few words with the winner, who is currently in the city of Ahmedabad in India.
Amplifying Rights Network (ARN) brings together organizations that work in various ways to support sexual and reproductive health and rights in Liberia. RFSU's project coordinator Aminata Kamarh-Sneh is on the far left in the picture. Image: Amplifying Rights Network
Of: Meklit Teklu
The proportion of Swedish aid that goes to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) has decreased by 35 percent since 2018, according to a new report from RFSU. The development magazine has spoken w/ Liberian Amplifying R Network (ARN) and with svenska RFSL om the cuts consequences.
December 17, 2025, Interview
Global Sumud Flotilla is an international initiative that aims to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Photo left: Andoni Pititako/Flickr
Of: Nora Sargin
When more than 500 activists from 44 countries defied an occupying force earlier this year, bodies served as shields, privileges as tools, and humanitarian aid as the only cargo.
December 17, 2025, Think piece
One of the projects that Charles Lawrence managed during his time at the embassy was a project run by AIFO Liberia, which empowered entrepreneurs with disabilities. Mr. Lawrence standing to the furthest left. Image: Karin Klerby/private
Of: Charles Lawrence
A couple of weeks ago, the Swedish government announced the closure of the Swedish embassy in Liberia and the end to over ten years of bilateral development cooperation. In this think-piece, Charles Lawrence, a former member of the Embassy team, reflects on the blue, yellow-crossed footsteps that Sweden leaves behind and hopes that Sweden and Liberia will nurture the legacy of Swedish development cooperation long after the Embassy closes its doors.
December 16, 2025, Guest chronicle
Ahead of COP30, IOM presented proposals for increased climate aid as a measure to address climate displacement. Images: cascoly/Canva, toeytoey2530/Getty images via Canva.
Of: Meklit Teklu
FN:s migration organization (IOM) woole sfamily climate-related migration on the COP30 agenda. But despite this, climate migration is conspicuous by its absence from the agreements reached at the annual climate summit. At the same time, the majority of the world's refugees seek protection in countries that are already hard hit by climate crises.
December 1, 2025, Development magazine explains
With its military operations in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, Israel is building a security policy puzzle, comments FUF's correspondent in Israel Josephine Forthmann. Image: Collage in Canva.
Israel carried out an airstrike on southern Beirut on Sunday, breaking a fragile ceasefire with Lebanon. The attacks come days after Israeli President Netanyahu made a criticized visit to occupied areas in southern Syria.
November 25, 2025, News
India is moving closer to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and reopening an embassy in Kabul. The image shows the Indian embassy in Kabul in 2018. Image: Embassy of India in Kabul/Facebook via Wikimedia Commons.
On October 10th, welcomed Ministry of External Affairs of India a delegation from the Taliban regime to Delhi. The country will reopen an embassy in Kabul and expresses its deep interest in Afghanistan's development and progress. The visit has drawn widespread criticism against how India prioritizes women's rights.
October 28, 2025, News
Syria recently held elections. An important step in strengthening the country's structures. Image: mariejirousek/Flickr
After decades of war and dictatorship, Syria went to the polls for the first time since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. According to the interim government, it is the beginning of a new political era. But many wonder whether anything will actually change.
October 23, 2025, Analysis, FUF-correspondents
Secretary-General António Guterres opens the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He calls on member states to build on the vision of peace, cooperation and shared responsibility. Image: UN Photo/Manuel Elías
Of: Nora Sargin
When world leaders gathered in New York for the UN's 80th high-level week, UNGA80, UN reform and the Palestinian issue were in focus, while President Trump took the opportunity to show his distrust of the organization. In retrospect, experts say that both gender equality and reality-based reform of the humanitarian systems have been sidelined.
October 22, 2025, News
90 percent of the buildings in Gaza are destroyed or damaged. Even those Gazans who are inside Gaza can be expected to live in camps for an extended period of time. Image: Hosny Sala/ Pixabay
President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza is being praised by the outside world, but the perspective and rights of refugees are conspicuous by their absence. That the same president who talks about peace for Gaza describes people on the run as "an attack on Western countries and their borders" rings hollow for Palestinians hoping to return home, writes FUF's Brussels correspondent Signe M. Andersson.
October 21, 2025, Analysis, FUF-correspondents