Global Us: What connects us all

Some fishing boats on Lake Victoria now use an electric motor rented from Dutch startup Asobo. It provides training, services the motors and charges the batteries with solar power. That helps to protect the ecosystem and cut the fishermen's costs.

This time our reporters discovered the Koesister, a traditional sweet pastry popular in Cape Town. It's made from spiced dough balls that are deep-fried and rolled in coconut. People here say Aunty Kubra from the area of Bo-Kaap makes the best ones.

On the island of Borneo, many forests have been cleared to make way for oil palm plantations or mining. That's having a disastrous effect on nature. So the 100 Million Trees project aims to bring back the forests.

This time our reporters discovered the Koesister, a traditional sweet pastry popular in Cape Town. It's made from spiced dough balls that are deep-fried and rolled in coconut. People here say Aunty Kubra from the area of Bo-Kaap makes the best ones.

Clean drinking water is vital - but for many people, accessing it is difficult and expensive. A pastor in an Indonesian village encourages people to make use of a dependable water supply that comes free of charge: rainwater.

Cairo's necropolis is not just a testament to Egypt's rich history, it's also the home of hundreds of poor families. Now large parts of the City of the Dead are to be sacrificed for a new highway.

The Ebo rainforest in Cameroon is part of the second-largest tropical forest in the world. It is home to rare primates including gorillas. But poachers and logging companies threaten the forest and its inhabitants.

Nemeh Mohsin is 15-years-old, and lives in Tripoli, Lebanon. He does karate, likes school, and wants to be a lawyer one day.

Animal and plant species are dying out in increasing numbers. Pollution and dwindling habitats are two big reasons why. Can animal parks, rescue stations, catch quotas and protected areas help us better save species from extinction?

The war in Ukraine has brought the threat of nuclear weapons back into the headlines. Meanwhile, in the US many victims have never received compensation for being exposed to nuclear test fallout in the Nevada desert of the 1950s and 1960s.