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Algers centre, Algeria. Credit: Abdelfatah Cezayirli/Pexels

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 observes, the will to topple the military regime remains strong.

Latest issue: July-August 2020

The Kurds: Betrayed again

Illustration by Emma Peer

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

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South Sudan’s James Aguer Garang talks to Jan-Peter Westad about art, trauma and healing.

Fresh from organizing deliveries of PPE to frontline workers, social scientist Sarojini Nadimpally speaks to Amy Hall about women’s health, the Covid-19 crisis and the inequalities it has exacerbated.

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Amelia Schofield of We Own It draws on lessons from contact tracing success stories around the world.

With the climate emergency, this landmark case has taken on added urgency: the absolute imperative being now that carbon and water sequestering forests, and the biodiversity that they contain, are protected and kept intact.

Jan Goodey reports on the legal bid to save the Amazon fringe that could set a worldwide precedent for forest protection.

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

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