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Cambridge Analytica – the disbanded data analytics company that allegedly used its software to create and disseminate hateful and inciting messages – in relation to Trump and Brexit, the company also played a nefarious role disseminating fake news in Africa. In Nigeria, it tried to influence the 2015 election

5 Nov 2018 3 minute read

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Fake news is not just a Western problem

Misinformation is rife, but it’s nothing new, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

Photo from the relaunch issue of New Internationalist

23 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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A look inside the relaunched New Internationalist

It's finally here. Issue 515, the relaunch magazine, has officially landed!

9 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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How we chose our relaunch cover

The making of #NI515: why we went for Tim Hetherington’s portrait from Liberia as the relaunch cover for the redesigned...

Sanie Gashi Mehmeti, a religious guide and teacher, during one of her classes in Lipjan. Photos: Arianna Pagani

4 Mar 2020 6 minute read

After Isis

Most European countries refuse to repatriate the thousands of former ISIS foreign fighters and their families now held in...

Syrian Kurds seek refuge in Turkey, after fleeing Islamic State which for months laid siege to their hometown Kobani in 2014. Gail Orenstein/Zuma/Alamy

30 Jul 2020 7 minute read

100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal

The Kurdish quest for freedom and independence has been long, dramatic and complicated. Here’s a potted history of the past...

Poverty is not unusual in the oil-rich semi-autonomous region. This woman begs in Erbil. Ton Koene/Alamy

29 Jul 2020 6 minute read

A shot at statehood

Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petrostate of Iraqi Kurdistan.

27 Jul 2020 3 minute read

In an uncertain global future, is it ethical to have children?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

Locals are still not allowed back to their neighbourhood in Sur, ravaged by the Turkish army and PKK militants in 2015, then flattened by bulldozers. Sertac Kayar/Reuters

27 Jul 2020 4 minute read

Dreaming of Sur

Five years after bombarding the historic neighbourhood of Sur, the Turkish state still wants to keep Kurdish residents out....

27 Jul 2020 2 minute read

Introducing...Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Richard Swift on the ambiguous figure managing the WHO’s pandemic response.

Soldiers patrol Santiago, Chile. (February, 2020) Credit: Daniel Guzman Espinoza

26 Jul 2020 5 minute read

Criminalizing hunger

In Chile, state security forces are increasingly detaining, beating and harassing the volunteers of community-led soup...

26 Jul 2020 3 minute read

Ways of belonging

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

United Nations SDG Goals Annual Gathering, Opening Plenary on Day Two 21-23 March 2018, Photo Credit: Neil Baynes/Flickr

21 Jul 2020 6 minute read

Could the SDGs deliver on their promises?

We are a third of the way towards 2030, the target date for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Gary...

20 Jul 2020 5 minute read

Why do churches still have £18 million invested in fossil fuels?

Despite pledging to divest from fossil fuels in 2018, the Church of England regional dioceses continue to profit from...

Deputy Minister Luwellyn Landers attends inauguration of Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina, 19 January 2019 by GovernmentZA is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

12 Jul 2020 3 minute read

The lies and the liars

Nanjala Nyabola grapples with the challenge of misinformation and disinformation.

Smuggling is necessary but dangerous work for these Kurdish boys. Many are killed every year by Iranian border patrols. Rahman Hassani/Alamy

12 Jul 2020 2 minute read

Shoot first

Iran’s Kurds are suffering in silence. But for how much longer?

12 Jul 2020 4 minute read

Turkey ramps up war on Kurds in Northern Iraq

Turkish airstrikes in Northern Iraq are nothing new, but the recent co-ordinated air and ground assault is unprecedented,...

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