Columns / Currents
Articles about Currents, ordered by date. 
Introducing... Volody Myrzelensky
A comedian who played the President of Ukraine in a popular TV series is now the actual President of Ukraine.
Reasons to be cheerful
Plastic-free Taiwan; Smarter spending; A matter of life and death; and who knew?
Haiti: where’s the money?
Where is the Petro-Caribe money??? #PetroCaribeChallenge
Vietnam: green fingers
Jack Davies reports on the EU's failure to do due diligence to prevent illegal timber trading between Vietnam and Cambodia.
Brazil: doll power
A shop in Brazil has achieved a win for racial diversity by only selling black dolls.
Myanmar: vampire grins
Blood-red patches stain the streets of Myanmar’s capital Yangon.
Somalia: secret wars
The United States has conducted more than 100 airstrikes in Somalia since 2017.
Reasons to be cheerful
R Kelly finally dropped; waking up for sleep sickness sufferers; free to love in Angola.
Israel: musical chairs
Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party still leads the polls despite the ongoing investigation into corruption allegations against him.
Portugal: tourists, tourists everywhere
Marta Vidal talks to Maria Augusta, 85, who lives in fear of eviction since her building was sold to a company planning to invest in short-term rentals.
India: into the darkness
Coalminers in treacherous ‘rat-hole’ mines work without safety equipment or rescue protocols in northeast India.
Senegal: if you build it…
The Museum of Black Civilizations has opened in Dakar yet many of its galleries remain empty.
Turkey: wolf at the door
The Kurdish MP has been on hunger strike since November.
Belize: whose land?
New developments in the Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute.
Introducing... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Kenya: refugee reporters
Sally Hayden reports on a fully independent, refugee-run news outlet in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya
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