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How foodbanks went global

The rise of food charity in some of the most affluent countries is surely a sign that something has gone badly wrong. So why is this broken model being exported to the rest of the world? Charlie Spring investigates.

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President of Peru Martín Vizcarra, prior to swearing in his cabinet in 2018. WikiCommons

John Crabtree reports on the shock ousting of ‘anti-corruption’ president Martín Vizcarra.

Celebrations in Washington D.C. after Joe Biden  ​is announced as the winner of the US presidential elections, 2020. Credit: Victoria Pickering /Flickr

Let’s enjoy Trump’s defeat, writes Vanessa Baird. But with realism and greater ambition.

Penny Walters in the kitchen at Byker Community Centre where she volunteers as a chef twice a week. Credit: Tessa Bunney

Penny Walters bears witness to food poverty in the UK and suggests a way out of it. As told to Hazel Healy.

Richard Swift on Latin America’s first Muslim head of state.

Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, and discover a movement for change in full swing.

Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, and discover a movement for change in full swing.

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