Dispatches
The Electric Buses Changing How Nairobi Gets to Work
A locally assembled fleet is quieter, cheaper to run and very popular with the drivers.
Issue 214
Reading the week closely: culture, food, ideas and the wider world.
World Editor
Daniel has reported from more than fifty countries and still believes the best story is usually two streets away from the press conference.
33 stories
A locally assembled fleet is quieter, cheaper to run and very popular with the drivers.
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The barriers were built for rare emergencies. Now they rise dozens of times a year, and that has its own cost.
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Thousands of native trees are cooling one of the hottest corridors in South America.
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Decades of clean-up have made the water safe, and on a warm morning the city is already in it.
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