A radio signal tower stands behind bullet-riddled houses in Omdurman, Sudan’s second most populous city, on 27 August 2024.Photo: Mudathir Hameed/DPA/Alamy Live News

Revolutionary aid

Once at the forefront of the 2018 revolution, Sudan’s social movements are now providing vital humanitarian aid throughout a devastating civil war. How have they kept their pro-democracy politics alive and adapted to a changing landscape? Eiad Husham reports.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
A statue of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad – the father of Bashar al-Assad – is seen destroyed in Dayr Atiyah, Syria, on 5 January 2025.Photo: Leo Correa/Associated Press/Alamy

The war isn’t over

After the celebrated fall of the Assad regime, questions remain over Syria’s future. As Turkey increases violence in the country’s Kurdish-majority north, Matt Broomfield reports on people’s hopes and fears.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
Therese Ndarubyariye joined a militia group after an abusive marriage, fighting against the M23 rebels in the eastern DRC.Photo: Sophie Neiman

Women’s agency in war

Sophie Neiman reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo to shine a light on the neglected stories of women bearing the brunt of war.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid amid Israel's ongoing onslaught on Gaza in Rafah on 7 March 2024. As of 14 July, 197 UNRWA humanitarian workers had been killed in the strip.Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

An idle witness?

The United Nations has failed to halt Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. As the void of legitimacy under the organization grows, Mark Seddon asks whether it’s time to look for an alternative.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Palestine reconstructing ruins

Palestine reconstructing ruins

Report on the destruction in Gaza, by Zoe Holman.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Illustration: P J Polyp

Big Bad World

Counting the cost, by P J Polyp.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
A rebel fighter burns the Myanmar
flag in the Shadaw township, Kayah State, on 3 February 2024, after seizing the town from the junta.Photo: Sopa Images/Alamy

Fight or flight

Myanmar's Junta imposes conscription amid escalating conflict, writes Steve Shaw.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
The aftermath of an Israeli air-strike in central Gaza.Photo: Sipa US/Alamy Live News

24 hours in hell

Report from Gaza by Wafa Al-Udaini.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Fossar Dabo, a physics teacher and environmental activist, after the discovery of a rosewood tree that had just been illegally cut down. Dabo and other volunteers founded the Green Sedhiou, an organization that denounces illegal timber trafficking at the Gambian border.Photo: Marco Simoncelli

Wood-fired war

The lush Casamance region of Senegal is home to a long running conflict between the state and an armed separatist movement. Tilda Kämmlein reports on how the illegal trade in timber is fuelling the strife and devastating the local environment.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
A child in Lviv observes a car brought from Bakhmut to demonstrate the intensity of the conflict. Ukrainian children risk being forcibly separated from their families by Russian forces and as part of the Ukraine’s mandatory evacuation policy.Photo: Mykola Tys/SPA Image/Alamy

Taken

Graeme Green reports on the Ukrainian parents who have been separated from their children during the Ukraine conflict.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Borderlines

Borderlines

Not welcome here. By Charlotte Rubin.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Thomas Kwoyelo is escorted by Ugandan army officers upon arrival at Entebbe air force base on 4 March 2009.Photo: James Akena/Reuters/Alamy

The long wait of Thomas Kwoyelo

A former child soldier in the ferocious Lord’s Resistance Army has been on trial for war crimes in Uganda for 13 years. Meanwhile thousands of other fighters have been welcomed home under amnesty legislation. Sophie Neiman visits Gulu to find out how this contentious case is failing the LRA’s victims.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Children play at a temporary housing facility in Lviv, 23 June 2022. Named Mariapolis, the city of Mary, the ‘modular city’ has been set up to accommodate people displaced by the war in Ukraine.Photo: Vitaliy Hrabar

Back to school?

Can Ukrainian educators deliver face-to-face schooling during a war?

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Illustration: Kate Evans

Thoughts from a Broad

When they do it, when we do it. Illustration by Kate Evans.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Cartoon History: Amritsar massacre

Cartoon History: Amritsar massacre

ILYA recounts how hundreds of unarmed civilians were slaughtered by troops under British command in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Sanarya practices searching for explosive ordnance as part of her training as a deminer in Chamchamal, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.Photo: MAG

Feel the fear and carry on

In Iraq a growing number of women are now doing the dangerous work of removing landmines – previously a male preserve. Adrian Margaret Brune reports.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022

Cartoon History: Hōno Heke II

ILYA brings to life a second chapter in the life of the Māori warrior chief as he becomes embroiled in a bitter rebellion against the British and their allies in the War of the North.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Wafa Ali Mustafa holds up a picture of her father during a demonstration on the International Day of the Disappeared, at Alexanderplatz, Berlin.Photo: Ahmad Kalaji

The search for Syria’s missing

The families of the disappeared are not giving up their search until they have answers. Jan-Peter Westad reports.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Disinformation November, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Palestine July, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Railways September, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
Rivers of life July, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
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