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1 Dec 2020 3 minute read

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Letter from Johannesburg

Yewande Omotoso ponders how belonging to a city goes beyond the bald fact of living in it.

Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, and discover a movement for change in full swing.

28 Oct 2020 1 minute read

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Mothers of the revolution

Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar...

28 Oct 2020 3 minute read

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Letter from Johannesburg

Green medicine: Yewande Omotoso’s apartment is slowly being taken over by plants, much to her delight.

Health workers in action at the Mpilo Central Hospital Covid19 Testing laboratory. Bulawayo, 25 April 2020. Credit: KB Mpofu / ILO

12 Oct 2020 2 minute read

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Doctors priced out

Joylean M Baro on how Zimbabwean doctors on the frontlines of Covid-19 care have been priced out of...

Newly displaced people waiting by the side of the road after fleeing attacks in Barsalogho, in northcentral Burkina Faso. TOM PEYRE-COSTA/NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL

8 Oct 2020 2 minute read

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Burkina Faso: coming undone

Sam Mednick on Burkina Faso’s unfolding humanitarian crisis.

5 Oct 2020 5 minute read

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‘I was ready to do whatever it took to bring peace’

Death threats delivered by bleeding amputees were not enough to deter Betty Bigombe from trying to make...

17 Sep 2020 5 minute read

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To fight Covid-19, Africa must reclaim its economic sovereignty

A global coalition of economists calls for a radical shift in Africa’s economic policy, one rooted in sovereignty and...

16 Sep 2020 5 minute read

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‘Young people in our country need care and support to thrive’

Flavia Mutamutega, Rwanda’s sole agony aunt for adolescent girls, tells...

14 Sep 2020 2 minute read

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Introducing...Lazarus Chakwera

Richard Swift on the theologian-president promising to stamp out nepotism and corruption in Malawian...

31 Aug 2020 3 minute read

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Why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow

Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Algers centre, Algeria. Credit: Abdelfatah Cezayirli/Pexels

16 Aug 2020 7 minute read

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Algeria’s uprising: ‘The people want independence!’

The Covid-19 pandemic may have put Algeria’s revolutionary uprising temporarily on hold, but, as Hamza Hamouchene...

26 Jul 2020 3 minute read

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Ways of belonging

Having travelled to the land of her birth as the coronavirus pandemic began to gather pace, Yewande Omotoso...

Dr Asamte Fidel is one of the local Sierra Leonean doctors working at Connaught Hospital. The hospital was on the frontline of the Ebola epidemic when it hit in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Credit: Simon Davis/DFiD

16 Jun 2020 7 minute read

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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...

9 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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The two Yewandes of Jo’burg

Yewande Omotoso’s namesake leads her down some unusual pathways.

Child's play: A boy jumps across boats wedged on a mixture of crude oil, water and sand, near Bojo in the Niger Delta. Oil production is a major pollutant in the area. Petterik Wiggers/Panos

11 Jun 2020 5 minute read

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Fed up with the fumes

Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as...

9 Jun 2020 4 minute read

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Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia.

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