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The expansion of fast-food brands in Africa is backed by powerful advertising such as this billboard on Kenyatta Avenue, a major street in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya. The country is now home to 22 KFC outlets, which have paved the way for other international chains - Subway, Domino’s Pizza, Cold Stone Creamery - that are expanding into East Africa.Photo: Brian Inganga

When KFC came to Kenya

531 - May, 2021
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As Big Food spreads throughout the Global South using the tobacco playbook, Kabugi Mbae investigates the rise in obesity – and non-communicable diseases – in Kenya.

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A volunteer at the West End Food Bank in Byker, Newcastle. Over 1.9 million in Britain are now reliant on food handouts in the UK. Photo: Tessa Bunney

How food banks went global

528 - November, 2020
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The rise of food charity in some of the most affluent countries is surely a sign that something has gone badly wrong. So why is this broken model being exported to the rest of the world? Charlie Spring investigates.

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Inequality Watch

Inequality Watch

529 - January, 2021
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Empty homes vs homeless people in the US.

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Albertina is 15 and the oldest of three sisters. When her mother died she took over responsibility for raising her younger siblings. Now she wants to become a nurse.Photo: Chris de Bode/Panos

The hidden debt of care

528 - November, 2020
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Covid-19 has pushed the world’s caregivers to the limit and beyond. Amy Hall explains how their work continues to be undermined and undervalued.

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Hunger - The Facts

Hunger - The Facts

527 - September, 2020
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Our dysfunctional food system was failing before Covid-19.

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Get out! Young Kurds confront a Turkish military vehicle on patrol in northern Syria after Turkey’s invasion.Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

Betrayed again

526 - July, 2020
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Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.

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Inequality Watch

Inequality Watch

526 - July, 2020
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22 of the richest men...

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A man sells ice cream from an Ola cart in Bloubergstrand, South Africa. Ola is owned by Unilever. Rather than giving transnational corporations more power, a Global Green New Deal could be partly financed through climate reparations.Photo: Louis Smit/Unsplash

Green and just

527 - September, 2020
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How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations.

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The Dooh family on their lake in the Niger Delta which was devastated by an oil spill. The farming family won a case against Shell in the Netherlands, which took 13 years.Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos

Cut and run

537 - May, 2022
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Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away. Ken Henshaw reports.

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Illustration: Westend61 GMBH/Alamy

Dreams of magic bullets

531 - May, 2021
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Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

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We shall not be moved! Anti-coup protesters remain seated in front of a line of riot police trying to clear roads in Yangon. Partially visible is a poster urging citizens to join the Civil Disobedience Movement.Photo: Panos Pictures

Courage and terror in Myanmar

532 - July, 2021
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Lives and livelihoods have been laid down for democracy. The economy is on the brink of collapse. The world must support the people’s quest to end military rule once and for all, writes Preeti Jha.

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Broken bonds

Broken bonds

526 - July, 2020
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The World Bank's 'pandemic bonds' haven't delivered, reports Liam Taylor.

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Country Profile: Belarus

537 - May, 2022
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The photos, facts, and politics of Belarus.

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 Far out. Fishers haul in their catch some 60 kilometres off the coast of Saint Louis, Senegal. They report travelling further, for longer, to catch ever-dwindling amounts of sardinella.Photo: Alfredo Caliz/Panos Pictures

The disappearing Senegalese sardines

533 - September, 2021
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Why is a nutritious superfood being routed away from poor communities to feed salmon, pigs and pets? Hazel Healy investigates.

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A local art group, art360, painted this mural dedicated to the fight against the virus in the settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.Photo: Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP/Getty

A silver lining

531 - May, 2021
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Despite the challenges of ensuring equal access, health expert Christopher Morgan is hopeful that the Covid-19 vaccine push is helping to shape a better future for global immunology. He speaks to Amy Hall.

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A Romani mother and daughter in Hajduhadhaz, eastern Hungary, 22 March 2011. The town’s Romani population has been subjected to vigilante patrols at the hands of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party, which came second in the 2018 parliamentary elections.Photo: Bernadett Szabo/Reuters

Do Romani lives matter?

535 - January, 2022
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When Stanislav Tomáš died in police custody in similar circumstances to George Floyd, the world quickly moved on. Conrad Landin goes to the Czech Republic in search of answers.

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The colour of wine

The colour of wine

535 - January, 2022
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In recent years, black wine growers, distillers’ and drinkers have been staking their claim on the industry.

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Work and Covid-19 - The Facts

534 - November, 2021
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The pandemic has affected livelihoods on an unprecedented scale. As the gears begin to turn again, the scarring effects on work may persist.

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 Economic migrants from rural areas at work on a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya. Such jobs are usually temporary, sometimes just a day’s labour.Photo: Nature Picture/Alamy

The squeeze on workers

534 - November, 2021
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Starting from the revelations of a global pandemic, Dinyar Godrej looks into the possible futures of work.

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How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine

535 - January, 2022
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The mass starvation that killed three million Indians during the closing years of the Second World War was no act of nature; it was engineered. Britain must face up to this crime, says Jason Hickel.

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Illustration: Sarah John

A fine kettle of fish

534 - November, 2021
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In her Letter from Manila Iris Gonzales visits Manila’s largest fish port, where the effects of an international dispute are playing out.

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Big Bad World

Big Bad World

534 - November, 2021
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Pants on fire. Cartoon by P J Polyp.

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Government officials pray over a storage box containing Covid-19 vaccines before they leave for various vaccination centres in Mumbai, India, in January this year. India is one of the countries that is calling for patents on Covid-19 vaccines to be waived during the pandemic.Photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg/Getty

Who gets it?

531 - May, 2021
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Access to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines should not be reserved for the rich. But that is what’s happening on a global scale today. Heidi Chow calls for technology to be shared and patents to be suspended in order to unlock vaccine production for all.

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Action & info

Action & info

537 - May, 2022
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Initiatives, action, and further reading on how to stop big oil.

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