Features
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How Somalia's coastal communities called time on the pirates
Diaspora uncles and 'fathers against pirates' were as decisive as the frigates in ending the piracy scourge. Jamal Osman speaks to Hazel Healy.
A toilet makes a difference
Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.
Worth their salt
Matthew Newsome meets a social entrepreneur helping India's salt-workers out of the poverty trap.
Europe points the finger of blame
Migrants have become the scapegoats in financially straitened times, reports Amy Hall.
Outgunned
Dayo Aiyetan and Theophilus Abbah offer a West African take on piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
Pirate primer
A guide to buccaneers, corsairs & privateers throughout the ages.
In the firing line
Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cut-throat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift.
A pirate's life for me
Jatin Dua investigates the ever-blurry line between protector and pirate in coastal Somalia.
Empire strikes back - where counter-piracy is going wrong
Pirate hijackings off the coast of Africa have spawned a lucrative protection industry. With private security guards taking to the oceans in ever increasing numbers, Hazel Healy asks whether this is really the way to ‘safer seas’.
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.
Rise up! Action and resources on debt
Fired up? Here’s were to get more info and tool up to fight the global debt scam.
Fight debt: altogether now!
Debt is used to break nations. But resistance is fertile – and the North could learn a few lessons from the South, argues Nick Dearden.
Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn
The austerity prescription fattens the creditors and punishes the innocent. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to the desires of finance.
Debt – The Facts
At any given time countries both owe debts and have them owing to them. Who owes what and what's the bigger crisis – foreign or domestic debt.
Let us prey
Vulture funds buy up ‘bad’ debt owed by countries in distress and aggressively sue for full payment, plus compound interest.
Debt – a global scam
The standard response to the current financial crisis has been to punish the presumed debtors. Are the creditors blameless, then? asks Dinyar Godrej.
Ghosts on our own land
Gigantic palm oil plantations across Indonesia and Malaysia are having a devastating impact on local farms and workers, too. Ollie Milman reports from Sumatra.
A clash of dreams
Indigenous Argentineans, disrespected and ignored for too long, are forging new alliances in their quest to safeguard the natural world.
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