Can peacebuilders end the war with Boko Haram in Nigeria? Hazel Healy travels there to find out.

It’s 10 years since the global financial system almost sent the world into a great depression. Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are now.

Trust in tatters. Business model busted. And journalism under attack from all sides. So why does Vanessa Baird think that the news media has a bright future?

After decades of denuding privatization policies, the green shoots of a public takeback are finally appearing. Dinyar Godrej on the promise and the threat.

What makes people brave? Vanessa Baird takes a look at an under-examined quality that can change the world.

Chris Brazier returns to the village in Burkina Faso that he has visited every 10 years since helping to make a film there in 1985.

A highway project threatens indigenous peoples' reserves in Bolivia. Aldo Orellana Lopez reports.

Morgan Meaker on Hezbollah's check on gay rights.

Māori revival; Lighting up the slums; Uncaged beasts

Transit; The Chambermaid.

A Massacre in Mexico by Anabel Hernández; Talking to North Korea by Glyn Ford; Russia Without Putin by Tony Wood; Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halagar.

Sound the People; Crave.

Parsa Sanjana Sajid shines a light on the stigma faced by single men looking for housing.

Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been transforming lives through community-based learning.

Bosnian Co-President from Republika Srpska.

Density, location, economics, sustainability and inequality.

Jordan is nominally a constitutional monarchy with regular national and local elections. However, the façade of democracy is thin. Zoe Holman profiles the country.

Cartoon by P J Polyp.