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Celebrating at a wedding in Jalalabad.Nick Megoran

Kyrgyzstan

Nick Megoran revisits one of the poorest of the former Soviet republics and finds that instability, corruption and ethnic tensions remain.

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NI 450 - Time for a fair economy - March, 2012
450 - March, 2012
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

A small group of islands with a long history

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NI 449 - Haiti two years on - January, 2012
449 - January, 2012
Federated States of Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia

A profile of one of the world's most frequently colonized and loosely assembled nation-states.

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NI 448 - The arms trade - December, 2011
448 - December, 2011
Three generations of women at a juice bar at Karradeh.Hadani Ditmars

Iraq

Hadani Ditmars finds a battered and divided country where young people strive for a progressive future.

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NI 447 - Banking on Hunger - November, 2011
447 - November, 2011
The Gambia

The Gambia

A profile of Africa's smallest and most densely populated country.

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NI 446 - Nature's defenders - October, 2011
446 - October, 2011
Stallholders at the spice, vegetable and fruit market in Yerevan. Rita Willaert (under a Creative Commons licence)

Armenia

Facts, figures and ratings in our latest country profile.

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NI 445 - Pakistan - daring to hope - September, 2011
445 - September, 2011
Students rioting in Ouagadougou on 23 MayAFP/Gamma

Burkina Faso

Until the beginning of this year, the West African nation seemed like an island of calm in a troubled region. Then everything changed...

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NI 444 - The changing face of masculinity - July, 2011
444 - July, 2011
Haiti

Haiti

A profile of the troubled Caribbean nation.

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NI 443 - The far right gets respectable - June, 2011
443 - June, 2011
India

India

South Asia's giant, from the Country Profile series in our New Internationalist magazine.

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NI 442 - Climate change denial - May, 2011
442 - May, 2011
The spectacular waterfall on the Potaro riverRobert Coates

Guyana

A country profile.

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NI 441 - China - makers of the miracle - April, 2011
441 - April, 2011
Samoa

Samoa

A profile of the Pacific island state.

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NI 440 - Up in arms - March, 2011
440 - March, 2011
Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau

A profile of the West African state

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NI 439 - Who's pushing politicians' buttons? - January, 2011
439 - January, 2011
Looking forward in hope. A woman waits in line to cast her vote at a primary school in Nairobi's slum district of Kibera in August 2010.Noor Khamis / Reuters

Kenya

Thanks to Barack Obama and a piece of mobile technology, Kenya's reputation is now based on more than just safari parks, as Geoffrey Kamadi explains.

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NI 438 - Zero carbon world - December, 2010
438 - December, 2010
Looking ahead in Stalin's own country: a miner waits for his shift in a coalmine in the town of Tqibuli, near Kutaisi.David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters

Georgia

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
437 - November, 2010
Ethiopia

Ethiopia

A profile of the African country

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
436 - October, 2010
Flag of Bangladesh

Bangladesh

A profile of Bangladesh

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
435 - September, 2010

United Arab Emirates

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NI 434 - Life beyond growth - July, 2010
434 - July, 2010
Wikimedia

Palestine

A profile of the West Bank and Gaza

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
433 - June, 2010

São Tomé e Príncipe

A profile of the West African island republic

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NI 432 - Iraq - seven years later - May, 2010
432 - May, 2010
Young Tunisian women studying photography at technical college.Photo by Giacomo Pirozzi / Panos

Tunisia

Tunisia continues to enjoy close economic and political ties with the US and Europe and benefits from billions of dollars of foreign investment.

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NI 431 - Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! - April, 2010
431 - April, 2010

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Time for a fair economy March, 2012
Haiti two years on January, 2012
The arms trade December, 2011
Banking on Hunger November, 2011
Nature's defenders October, 2011
Pakistan - daring to hope September, 2011
The changing face of masculinity July, 2011
The far right gets respectable June, 2011
Climate change denial May, 2011
China - makers of the miracle April, 2011
Up in arms March, 2011
Who's pushing politicians' buttons? January, 2011
Zero carbon world December, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
Seed savers September, 2010
Life beyond growth July, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Iraq - seven years later May, 2010
Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! April, 2010
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