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19 Aug 2018 3 minute read

Botswana: losing its sparkle?

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and...

25 Jul 2018 3 minute read

Worldbeater: Isaias Afwerki

We put the President of Eritrea’s track record – liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator – under the spotlight....

Members of the dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party inside a police vehicle in Phnom Penh.

3 Jul 2018 7 minute read

Cambodia’s ‘one party state’ prepares for polls

Prime Minister Hun Sen has dissolved newspapers and the opposition. Becky and Simon Kenton-Lake...

18 Jun 2018 6 minute read

The selfish giants

Laura Basu on how media ownership is getting more concentrated – and what to do about it.

A screenshot from Lush’s spycops campaign

4 Jun 2018 3 minute read

Why we need Lush’s Spycop campaign

Lush’s exposure of spycop wrongs will improve policing, Jenny Jones argues.

The Committees for the Defence of the Revolution blocked roads over Easter 2018

14 May 2018 5 minute read

The state vs people power in Catalonia

How the Committees for the Defence of the Republic are fighting for democracy in Catalonia. Luke Stobart...

30 Apr 2018 8 minute read

The case for public ownership

After decades of neglect, the mood is turning. Dinyar Godrej on the fightback against privatization.

Liz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakaka in front of the country’s only nuclear power station – Koeberg.

23 Apr 2018 4 minute read

The Women Who Stopped the Nuclear Deal

Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid won the Goldman Environmental Prize for stopping a secret nuclear deal...

19 Apr 2018 11 minute read

Adventures in democracy

A global social movement is rising. It is open, participatory and public, writes Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

The leaders of Russia and Hungary, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán

30 Apr 2018 5 minute read

Is Hungary mimicking Putin’s authoritarianism?

Has Putin exported ‘managed democracy’ to Hungary? Madeline Roache examines Orbán’s...

Opposition candidate Fabricio Alvarado from the National Restoration Party. Photo: Gustavo Fuchs

4 Apr 2018 9 minute read

Evangelical uprising: a new political opposition in Costa Rica

Right-wing Fabricio Alvarado may have lost, but his party’s rise remains worrying, writes Gustavo Fuchs.

A Rohingya refugee takes a moment’s pause, shortly after arriving in a makeshift camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, last September. She is one of over 670,000 people to have fled over the border from Myanmar since August 2017.

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

Fleeing Myanmar

Parsa Sanjana Sajid speaks to Rohingya refugees trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

Russian president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Russia Today’s leadership.

28 Mar 2018 5 minute read

Banning Russia Today would solve nothing

This will give Putin another excuse for a media crackdown, argues Madeline Roache.

26 Mar 2018 3 minute read

Paraguay: An unequal land

Paraguay’s land activists are under attack. Toby Hill profiles the...

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

How can famines be ended?

To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal...

‘Zuma must fall’ protesters with a banner depicting Atul Gupta, implicated in recent scandals. Pic: Discott, CC-BY-SA4.0

1 Feb 2018 4 minute read

The scandal that was Zuma’s downfall

How corruption in South Africa continues to cost taxpayers billions of rand, by Neil Thompson.

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