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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...

10 Aug 2021 12 minute read

A taste of hope

With herders under threat from global heating in Somaliland, the government has hatched a plan to move millions to the coast...

Unbowed: Koza Press editor-in-chief Irina Slavina’s children lead her funeral procession, Nizhny Novgorod, 6 October 2020. MIKHAIL SOLUNIN/TASS/ALAMY

9 Aug 2021 7 minute read

Not toeing the Kremlin’s line

Regional media is holding its own against the ‘official version’ put out by the nationals. Could it be a harbinger for...

8 Aug 2021 2 minute read

Introducing...Samia Suluhu Hassan

Richard Swift on East Africa’s first woman president, a Zanzibar-based organizer promising to protect...

5 Aug 2021 3 minute read

A bloody business

Iris Gonzales reflects on a violent national obsession that has only grown under coronavirus restrictions...

4 Aug 2021 4 minute read

Hot docs

Richard Swift shares highlights from the 2021 international documentary festival in Toronto.

3 Aug 2021 4 minute read

Spotlight: Selma Dabbagh

Writer Selma Dabbagh speaks to Rahila Gupta about reclaiming Arab women’s sexuality.

2 Aug 2021 17 minute read

How shadow courts threaten the climate

An international energy agreement could leave governments across the Global South exposed to expensive lawsuits from...

1 Aug 2021 3 minute read

‘Will my activism jeopardize my future?’

A climate activist fears what impact a conviction could have on their future and turns to Agony Uncle.

Esther Ze Naw and Ei Thinzar Maung lead the first large-scale protests against the coup in Yangon, 6 February 2021. MYAT THU KYAW/NUR PHOTO/GETTY

28 Jul 2021 6 minute read

A chance to rebuild?

Thin Lei Win believes the Myanmar military’s reign of terror might be leading a long-divided nation onto a...

27 Jul 2021 4 minute read

Zuma is still clinging to power, citizens are paying the price

South Africa’s recent uprisings have revealed how much of a tinderbox the country is, argues Glen Retief....

The parents of one-year-old Thin Thawdaw Tun carry their injured daughter, who received treatment from volunteer medics. A rubber bullet fired by the security forces hit her in the eye, while she was inside the family home. PANOS PICTURES

25 Jul 2021 4 minute read

No place for children

Not even young lives have been spared by the junta. Maung Moe reports on a day of shame.

22 Jul 2021 5 minute read

The interview: Sayragul Sauytbay

Sayragul Sauytbay on being forced to teach propaganda in a concentration camp for Uyghur...

A woman holds a placard with Lukashenko's face on it

21 Jul 2021 3 minute read

Hall of infamy: Alexander Lukashenko

How the Belarus leader clings to power.

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