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Cuba’s crossroads
Will Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Castros’ hand-picked successor, wield a new broom of change? Wayne Ellwood weighs up the island’s options.
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. But can pastoralists adapt to fishing? Alice Rowsome and Yahye Xanas investigate.
Cresting the wave
Changiz M Varzi meets Mexican indigenous women artists who are defying convention.
Fighting dispossession
Cape Town’s citizens’ groups are not taking housing injustice lying down, according to Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot.
Beaten back
The vicious game of hounding out asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law. Katie Dancey-Downs reports.
New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next
Chris Brazier looks back over a career as a co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.
Spirited away
Violeta Santos Moura’s poignant photo-essay reveals the tragedy of Nepal’s human-trafficking crisis – and the courage of those fighting back.
‘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.
What do Syrians Want?
The story of how Rafif Jouejati organized a survey in a warzone, and the answers she got.
Rushing towards death
It has been called the most dangerous job in the world. The White Helmets are a fearless volunteer force that has pulled thousands of Syrians from the rubble left by the regime's deadly barrel bombs.
A resilient revolution
Nonviolent activists are holding out in Syria, despite the destruction. Do not abandon them, says Daniel Adamson.
The unreported year
Stories that didn't make the mainstream media in 2013.
Night flight
As the civil war in Syria escalates, over two million people have fled across its borders. Jordan had received 515,000 refugees by the end of August. David Brunetti’s images capture the scene.
In the valley of conflict
Sofi Lundin reports on the story of the Kashmiri Pandits, a minority group driven from their homes in the beautiful but strife-torn Kashmir Valley.
A world wide web of change
The fundamentals of digital activism are little different from its analogue ancestry, argues Adam Ma'anit
Inequality costs the earth
Greater equality, both between and within nations, would be better for us all - as well as for the planet. Bob Hughes considers the facts.
Mean machine
Danny Dorling explains how class divisions reinforce social inequality and lower the level of public debate.
Murderers, you are welcome!
Jean Baptiste Kayigamba, who lost most of his family in the Rwandan genocide, wonders why Britain and France are harbouring the major perpetrators and whether recent legal changes will make a difference.
Ethiopia’s endangered democracy
With elections fast approaching, Nick Hunt exposes how Meles Zenawi’s Government has turned its back on its people.
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