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The debate: Is concern about population growth exaggerated?

What’s happening to human numbers – and what should happen – is a hot topic again. Mohan Rao and Sara Parkin go head to head.

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Breaking waves

Breaking waves

The Sri Lankan war of 2009 marked the termination of a long and bitter fight for autonomy for the island’s Tamil community. Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock tell the story of Vanni, the Tamil region on the island’s north.

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Photos, clockwise from top left: a rugby match between an invited World 15 team and Ikaletahi, the Tongan national team, in celebration of King George Tupou V’s coronation in 2006; graffiti on a burnt-out store after the riots in the capital Nuku’alofa in November 2006 – businesses that were foreign-owned or owned by the Tongan elite were targeted by rioters; a portrait of the former prime minister, ‘Akilisi Pohiva, who died in September 2019; women and children waiting for transport home after Sunday-morning church in Neiafu, the second-largest town in Tonga, on Vava’u island – the women are wearing black mourning clothes. Photo: Jocelyn Carlin/Panos

Country Profile: Tonga

The facts, figures and politics of Tonga.

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Open Window

Open Window

Electric Life by Gatis Sluka (Riga, Latvia).

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Sign of the times

Deforestation is not a hair cut.

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 Illustration: Sarah John

Wish fulfilment

Parsa Sanjana Sajid visits a popular shrine and witnesses the everyday mingling of the social and the spiritual.

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Letters

Letters

Praise, blame and all points in between? Give us your feedback.

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View from India

View from India

We need to talk about toilets. By Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Suicidal drives and fake patriotism by Leonardo Sakamoto.

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View from Africa

View from Africa

After Mugabe by Nanjala Nyabola.

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Eying up the Fitzroy

Eying up the Fitzroy

Report from Australia by Nick Rodway.

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Still waiting for self-determination: an indigenous Saharawi woman sits inside her tent in Tifariti, Western Sahara. Photo: Zohra Bensemra/ Reuters

Conflict minerals

Report from Western Sahara by Chris Brazier.

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Precarious lives: garment workers, mostly women, make sportswear in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Chris Stowers/Panos Pictures

Everything but arms

Report from Cambodia by Daniel Quinlan.

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The debate: Is concern about population growth exaggerated?

What’s happening to human numbers – and what should happen – is a hot topic again. Mohan Rao and Sara Parkin go head to head.

Various Authors November, 2019 522 Buy
Breaking waves

The Sri Lankan war of 2009 marked the termination of a long and bitter fight for autonomy for the island’s Tamil community. Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock tell the story of Vanni, the Tamil region on the island’s north.

Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock November, 2019 522 Buy
Country Profile: Tonga

The facts, figures and politics of Tonga.

Taina Kami Enoka November, 2019 522 Buy
Open Window

Electric Life by Gatis Sluka (Riga, Latvia).

Gatis Sluka November, 2019 522 Buy
Seriously?

Gateskeepers

November, 2019 522 Buy
Borderlines

Over the rainbow

November, 2019 522 Buy
Sign of the times

Deforestation is not a hair cut.

November, 2019 522 Buy
Wish fulfilment

Parsa Sanjana Sajid visits a popular shrine and witnesses the everyday mingling of the social and the spiritual.

Parsa Sanjana Sajid November, 2019 522 Buy
Letters

Praise, blame and all points in between? Give us your feedback.

November, 2019 522 Read
View from India

We need to talk about toilets. By Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Nilanjana Bhowmick November, 2019 522 Buy
View from Brazil

Suicidal drives and fake patriotism by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Leonardo Sakamoto November, 2019 522 Buy
View from Africa

After Mugabe by Nanjala Nyabola.

Nanjala Nyabola November, 2019 522 Buy
Eying up the Fitzroy

Report from Australia by Nick Rodway.

Nick Rodway November, 2019 522 Buy
Conflict minerals

Report from Western Sahara by Chris Brazier.

Chris Brazier November, 2019 522 Buy
Everything but arms

Report from Cambodia by Daniel Quinlan.

Daniel Quinlan November, 2019 522 Buy