Poorva Karkare and Nadia Ashraf look back at a remarkable event, during which former coal miners from the Dutch South Limburg region shared their experiences on the difficult transition away from coal mining with human rights defenders from Zambia and Guatemala.

Who and what shapes election outcomes in African countries? Martin Ronceray and Bruce Byiers have identified different strategies to sway elections and relate these to recent and ongoing electoral processes in Africa through a number of telling examples.

Earlier this month, the high-level group of wise persons on the European financial architecture for development published its highly-awaited report with recommendations for the EU. What does the report offer, and what does it fail to address?