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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...

Leasing a flying ICU to go between Belém and Brasília costs over $6,794 – or 63 months’ wages of a person within the poor 50 per cent.

25 Jun 2020 2 minute read

First class patients

In Brazil, the rich, who infected the poor, are now buying ICU flights for themselves.

23 Jun 2020 3 minute read

What if…drug patents were scrapped?

Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

Women in Qamishlo, the de-facto capital of Rojava, protest against a Turkish-Russian deal that threatens them and the gains of their revolution. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

22 Jun 2020 6 minute read

Unbowed

Turkey is bent on extinguishing a beacon of women’s liberation in northern Syria. But the women of Rojava are not giving up...

Get out! Young Kurds confront a Turkish military vehicle on patrol in northern Syria after Turkey's invasion. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

21 Jun 2020 11 minute read

Betrayed again

Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird...

22 Jun 2020 1 minute read

The Kurds: Betrayed again

While the world’s attention is on the Covid-19 pandemic, Turkey is ramping up its war against the Kurds – in Syria, in Iraq...

18 Jun 2020 3 minute read

The UK is taking aid back to its colonial roots

The government’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development will set back efforts to fix global...

15 Jun 2020 5 minute read

Fighting hunger with solidarity

As employment dwindles and mass evictions loom, Keira Dignan and Frans Jansson speak to...

Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.

16 Jun 2020 5 minute read

Out of sight, out of mind

This Covid-19 crisis is not the ultimate leveller. Just like the financial crash of 2008, it is producing winners and losers...

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

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...

15 Jun 2020 4 minute read

Iranian child rights activists seek asylum abroad

Veronique Mistiaen speaks to an Iranian human rights activist currently in hiding.

15 Jun 2020 9 minute read

Two Demons: Covid-19 and abuse

Stephanie Boyd on the making of a groundbreaking indigenous film about the pandemic in Peru’s Amazon.

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14 Jun 2020 3 minute read

‘I don’t want to live like this’

Community journalists from the northeast of England on the impact of air pollution on their lives.

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