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Riot police hit protesters participating in a demonstration against lawmakers’ salary demands outside the parliament buildings in Nairobi in May 2013. THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS/ ALAMY

12 Apr 2022 6 minute read

Colonize and punish

Mass imprisonment and merciless policing were the preferred tools of control for European colonizers. Patrick...

10 Apr 2022 4 minute read

More coal won’t fix the UK’s energy crisis

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, plans to expand a coal mine in South Wales are being touted as a way to solve...

A woman with a child, fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, speaks with a volunteer as she browses for basic necessities and clothes at the Humanitarian Aid Headquarters in Perechyn, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. REUTERS/Serhii Hudak

7 Apr 2022 5 minute read

The volunteers shouldering Ukraine’s humanitarian response

Mutual aid networks in Ukraine have stepped up to support those in need across the country, writes Tina Burrett. ...

6 Apr 2021 3 minute read

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Racism’s deadly cycle

Leonardo Sakamoto on his country's lethal pattern of racism.

Making friends at the Bomana Prison, in Port Moresby City, Papua New Guinea in December 2017.

5 Apr 2022 13 minute read

Beyond punishment

Amy Hall explores the movement calling time on prisons and the police while offering an alternative vision...

Swapsies: Nigerian artist Lukas Osarobo-Okoro, photographed outside the British Museum in London. Osarobo-Okoro and the Ahiamwen Guild of Benin have offered to donate new artworks to the institution. DYLAN MARTINEZ/ALAMY

4 Apr 2021 7 minute read

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Stolen treasures

Taken during a violent British raid, the Benin bronzes have sat in Western museums and private collections for over a...

3 Apr 2022 3 minute read

War and the attention economy

Why do so many devastating wars quickly disappear from public consciousness? Nanjala Nyabola examines our...

A woman kneels down next to a child and both smile

31 Mar 2022 3 minute read

Defiance in Kyiv

As lives are turned upside down by war, Bennett Murray reports from Kyiv on the defiant mood in the...

31 Mar 2022 6 minute read

‘Why are you killing us?’

Is the war in Ukraine reaching a stalemate and is Russia showing signs of taking a step back? Having recently returned from...

29 Mar 2022 1 minute read

‘Our culture is vanishing’

In the Amazon rainforest, remote communities descended from enslaved African people, are taking on the palm oil production...

28 Mar 2022 5 minute read

Could the Left take power in Colombia?

With the South American country closer than ever to electing a leftwing government, Nick MacWilliam...

27 Mar 2022 7 minute read

A child’s right to be forgotten

Roxana Olivera tells a cautionary tale of her dogged attempts to get an abusive, intrusive photograph –...

25 Mar 2022 5 minute read

The alternative film review

Malcolm Lewis weighs up a selection of independent and studio-produced films from the global zeitgeist.

Men stand with a banner that reads ' Save our seafarers' and union flags

25 Mar 2022 5 minute read

Scottish ship workers stand defiant

A recent wave of mass redundancies from P&O ferries has triggered outrage. Conrad Landin reports from...

A woman and her children walking along a street in Ocho Rios. Tim Smith/Panos

24 Mar 2022 5 minute read

Country profile: Jamaica

First came the Spanish, then the British, and then the austerity measures of the IMF. Christina Ivey on the...

An Afghan man sells toys during the celebration for Afghan New Year (Newroz) in Kabul, Afghanistan March 20, 2016. Afghanistan uses the Persian calendar which runs from the vernal equinox. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

22 Mar 2022 5 minute read

New year, fearful past

At Persian New Year, Sahar Fahimi speaks to Afghans about the humanitarian crisis tearing through their...

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