Mozambique plantation leaves no land or jobs for villagers
Promised plantation jobs, five years later these Mozambicans are still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.
Explosive mix
As big international players eye up Mozambique’s natural gas reserves, a storm of conflict brews for local communities. Sophie Neiman investigates.
How will the Global South pay for climate change damage?
Using market mechanisms will just push the burden onto those least responsible, say Harpreet Kaur Paul and Harjeet Singh.
Fighting the fossils
Profiles of groups from Palestine, Mozambique, Uganda and India who are saying no to new oil and gas infrastructure.
Mozambican men tackle domestic violence
Meet the non-profit art group trying to end violence against women in Mozambique. By Rebecca Cooke.
Paradise lost?
A vast area of Namibia and Botswana is under threat from oil and gas exploration. Devastating consequences are feared for the people, wildlife and natural environment. Graeme Green reports on the fight to keep Kavango…
Africa’s military coups are climate coups
Abdoulie Ceesay, Gambian representative to COP28, argues that the West must take climate action – not militarization.
Mixed media: books
Peter Whittaker and Vanessa Baird review the latest releases in radical publishing.
‘We will oppose it until the end of our lives’
Shadrack Omuka reports from Kenya’s Arabuko Sokoke forest on the threat posed to East Africa’s largest coastal forest from titanium mining.
Africa deals with the ripple effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Can the quest for peace in Europe bring calm at home? Rosebell Kagumire asks.
After the floods, Pakistan needs reparations, not charity
Cancel the debt, or let the Bretton Woods group profit from climate disaster, writes Farooq Tariq.
The alternative music review
Louise Gray reviews albums from musician, composer and sitar player Bishi and multi-national quintet Monoswezi.
What kind of world do we want to retire into?
As a new report exposes the billions of pounds invested in fossil fuels by UK local government pension funds, Platform’s Laurie Mompelat…
What is the Wagner Group?
The Russian paramilitary organization has played an active part in the Ukraine war and left bloody footprints across the globe.
New Internationalist’s top reads in 2019
As the year comes to a close, here are the most popular articles on our site
Fighting dispossession
Citizens’ groups are resisting gentrification, evictions and housing inequality in urban South Africa in a variety of creative ways. Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot report from Cape Town.
