Introducing...Samia Suluhu Hassan
Richard Swift on East Africa’s first woman president, a Zanzibar-based organizer promising to protect Tanzanian workers and their basic freedoms.
Game over for hunters in Tanzania
Maasai activists are hopeful that they will return to traditional grazing grounds lost to big-game trophy hunters, Nick Dowson writes.
For whose protection?
A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world leaders in December. But not everyone is happy about it, as Amy Hall reports.
The Beijing connection
Christine Mungai reflects on the past, present and future of the relationship between China and the African continent.
The Ogiek won reparations, now they want results
One year after a court ruling, the Ogiek are still waiting for reparations. Amy Hall reports on a case that could change the lives of Indigenous people across the region.
The ultimate 2022 climate to-do list
What will be the definitive climate struggles of 2022? Danny Chivers shares global activists’ to do list.
Fighting the fossils
Profiles of groups from Palestine, Mozambique, Uganda and India who are saying no to new oil and gas infrastructure.
Is criminalization the right response to domestic violence?
Are legal punishments an effective way to tackle domestic violence, or are they failing to go to the heart of the problem? Leigh Goodmark and Stella Nyanzi go head to head.
Does international development still have a problem with racism?
Nikki van der Gaag remembers the history of race and representation discussions in the development sector and asks, what has really changed?
Check your passport privilege
Nanjala Nyabola explains the weighty, 'anti-citizen' African bureaucracies that have their origins in the colonial period.
Let the water flow
Could solar-powered desalination help boost drinking water supplies in Kenya and beyond? Anthony Langat reports.
Namibia’s long fight for justice
Communities that were decimated by Germany’s forgotten genocide are now demanding justice. Gouri Sharma reports.
Brexit’s threat to Africa trade
Nick Dowson reports on Brexit’s impact on some Global South economies.
Winners and losers
Vanessa Baird analyses how the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.
Beyond the tourist trail
Conservationists in the Global South are seeking sustainable pathways, finds Graeme Green.
‘Little Africa’ in China
Guangzhou is home to Asia’s largest African migrant population, who come to China chasing business opportunities, reputable universities and low living costs. Carlotta Dotto reports.
Investor rex
The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.
Mozambique plantation leaves no land or jobs for villagers
Promised plantation jobs, five years later these Mozambicans are still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.
Diplomats – who needs them?
Frances Guy makes a plea for traditional diplomacy in the age of the Trumpian tweet.
New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next
Chris Brazier looks back over a career as co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.
Taking back the peanut basin
The soil is dying, the water’s running out, and climate change is rendering the future even more uncertain. Hazel Healy speaks to farmers in Senegal who are ready for a different system.
