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Women unite through drumming

The fight to free Nigeria’s prisoners, report by Nosmot Gbadamosi.

Richard Swift introduces us to the head of the World Health Organization.

LGBTQI+ people have been scapegoated and put at risk during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal.

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.

Western volunteers on why they fight for Rojava.

Abdullah Öcalan’s journey to democratic confederalism.

No mercy for Iran’s mountain smugglers.

Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre.

Key events in recent Kurdish history.

Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik.

The Kurds – the fourth-biggest ethnic group in the Middle East – are described as ‘the largest nation without a state’. (Where accurate statistics are lacking, we have gone with ‘reasonable’ estimates.)