How to fight illegal fishing
Can fishers, coastguards and marine activists see off the thieves from powerful nations plundering the seas of West Africa? Aïda Grovestins reports.
Protecting the ‘lungs of West Africa’
Palm-oil corporations are threatening the rich rainforests Liberians depend on. Veronique Mistiaen hears from environmental lawyer Alfred Brownell, who’s doing all he can to safeguard them.
A human story
Economies in a tailspin will need a different vision to steady them, believes Dinyar Godrej.
White saviours: challenging poverty tourism
Norwegian activists are challenging ‘white-saviour’ attitudes that over-simplify poverty writes Tom Lawson.
What if…we got real about sustainability?
It might reverse the UN’s order of holiness, Vanessa Baird finds.
First Ebola, then Covid-19
Four years ago, New Internationalist travelled to West Africa to hear the stories of communities in recovery from the deadly Ebola epidemic. Hazel Healy gets back in touch.
The UK must stop aid to failing private schools
How did we get to the point where two African countries are trying to shut down our aid funded schools? Nick Dearden asks.
UK pushing dodgy Public-Private Partnerships
Carillion highlights how disastrous these can be – this policy must stop, argues Jenny Nelson.
Who owns the sea?
Vanessa Baird examines the free-for-all consensus when it comes to the world’s oceans, and its implications for our future.
The case for public ownership
After decades of neglect, the mood is turning. Dinyar Godrej on the fightback against privatization.
How Palestine became Israel’s spyware test-bed
Antony Loewenstein examines spyware’s role in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and why governments are failing to reign in its insidious spread.
Liberia
The many dignitaries who attended the inauguration in January of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as President…
Resisting corporate takeover: 'when our land is free, we’re all free'
Silas Siakor and Jacinta Fay document the Jogbahn Clan’s struggles against agribusiness in Liberia.
