China's engagement in Africa was the theme of an international development-policy symposium held by KAS in Beijing. | Navid Kermani, the well-known German-Iranian author and orientalist, argues that eligiousness and civic engagement can be reconciled. | The media programme for Latin America has presented a study on the way in which the daily press addresses the growing poverty on the continent. | In Ghana, interested citizens had an opportunity to meet their MPs and inform themselves about theirwork in parliament.