Development minister Gerd MĂĽller (CSU) has called on the EU to open its markets to African goods, in a bid to stimulate growth on the continent and tackle the migrant crisis.
A new study shows that one city above all will dominate the future of Germany, but if you're canny you might still want to think about moving to Leipzig or Erfurt.
In the second of a two-part series on Berlin’s future, The Local looks at the major developments in former East Berlin. From palaces to bridges, what’s next for the East?
From Tempelhof to Tegel, Berlin's airports cause its politicians headaches. In the first of two articles, The Local looks at plans and problems for development in the city's western half. What's next for the West?
German Development Minister Dirk Niebel has warned Zimbabwe about a law that forces foreign companies to cede majority shares to locals, and called in particular for the protection of German firms in the country.
Between 2005 and 2009 the German government approved the sale of huge quantities of weapons to repressive regimes in North Africa and the Middle East despite clear policy guidelines, a new Amnesty International report says.
Despite far-reaching sanctions against the Syrian government for its brutal crackdown against a civilian uprising, Germany is still offering development aid to the Middle East country. The Green party has expressed reservations.
A suicide bomber and two gunmen have attacked the office of a German security firm protecting aid workers in the Afghanistan city of Kunduz, in a co-ordinated assault that left at least six people dead.
Germany's Africa policy coordinator on Thursday blamed China's practice of buying up land in the Horn of Africa for contributing to the devastating famine ravaging the region.
Germans seem less prepared to donate money for aid operations in Africa then elsewhere, according to the aid group federation <i>Aktion Deutschland Hilft</i>, referring to the latest famine in eastern Africa.
Development Minister Dirk Niebel has waded into the controversy surrounding a deal to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia, saying German weapons exports can be compatible with human rights by stabilizing an entire region.
Colombian popstar Shakira was in Germany this weekend to perform a concert and she took the opportunity to sign an agreement with the German Development Ministry to support her charity.
Germany said on Wednesday it was suspending yearly payments of €200 million ($274 million) to the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria following allegations of corruption.
Germany has taken its seat on the UN Security Council this week touting an ambitious agenda. Some of this will end in disappointment, experts warn. But there is still much Berlin can achieve.
Three entrepreneurs have brought the single-source coffee movement to Germany, directly connecting customers to an Ethiopian community producing their gourmet beans.
Germany may have successfully claimed a seat on the UN Security Council, but newspapers in The Local’s media roundup on Wednesday have few illusions about Berlin’s importance on the world stage.
Development Minister Dirk Niebel has demanded that Europe ditch its hefty agriculture subsidies and open its markets to the world’s poorest farmers in an effort to boost the fortunes of developing nations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a UN summit on Tuesday that developing nations needed better governance and urged them to take more responsibility for building up their economies to combat poverty.
Ahead of a United Nations summit on world poverty in New York, Chancellor Angela Merkel said more needed to be done to fight poverty around the world. Progress was "much too slow," she said.
<b>A German security guard was killed Friday when suspected Taliban militants stormed the compound of a US aid organisation in northern Afghanistan, a US embassy official said.</b>
