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Introducing... William Ruto

The 2022 Kenyan presidential election victor.

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Between 11,000 and 25,000 Kenyans were killed during colonial Britain’s crackdown against the Mau Mau rebellions, and victims are still seeking compensation. Ndiku Mutua, Paulo Nzili, Gitu Wa Kahengeri, Jane Muthoni Mara and Wambugu Wa Nyingi - representing victims - deliver a petition to 10 Downing St in London in 2009. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA/Alamy

Charles the last?

Report on the Commonwealth’s future role from Nigeria by Obiora Ikoku.

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Top left: Forty years after the original Greenham Women’s Peace Camp was established, activists marched to the site ahead of the anniversary celebrations in September 2021. Commemorations also took place at Faslane this year, where a peace camp was established in 1982 and has continued to this day. Top right: the sign marking the entrance to the camp; Bottom right: an activist uses a stencil to mark slogans on a nearby road; Bottom left: activists participate in a ‘die-in’. Photos: Top left Maggie Sully/Alamy, all others Denise Laura Baker

Hear us roar

It’s 40 years since the establishment of peace camps at the British atomic weapons bases of Greenham Common and Faslane. Speaking to the women at the centre of four decades of resistance, Denise Laura Baker asks what keeps them going.

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Lithuanian border guards detain migrants at the roadside in Kalviai, close to the border with Belarus, July 2021. Photo: Janis Laizans/Reuters/Alamy

Pushed back and pushed on

The treatment meted out to asylum-seekers in Lithuania has hardened since Belarus opened up a migration channel into the country. Severia Bel speaks to people trapped in the political crossfire.

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Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono waves to journalists as he enters a prison truck after his first bail hearing at Harare Magistrates’ court, 22 July 2020. He was arrested because he had called for a demonstration against corruption. Photo: Angela Jimu/Majority World

Muzzling the media in Zimbabwe

With the country heading towards a general election, the clampdown on press freedom is an attack on democracy itself. Busani Bafana reports from Bulawayo.

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The property of Mukuru Kwa Njenga residents is strewn across the ground after evictions to make way for the Nairobi Expressway, 17 November 2021. Photo: Donwilson Odhiamb/Sopa Images/Sipa USA/Alamy

Roads for the rich, tents for the poor

Kenyan social justice activist Anami Daudi Toure speaks to Amy Hall about how he and his neighbours in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga settlement are picking up the pieces after violent mass evictions.

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TIAA member Nancy Romer takes part in a protest outside the company’s headquarters in 2017. ‘TIAA has become a leader in in greenwashing investments that are harmful to the climate and communities, their land deals have exacerbated human rights violations, contributed to environmental destruction and enabled unethical or illegal business practices,’ Doug Hertzler, a senior policy analyst for ActionAid USA, told New Internationalist. ‘We are building on this momentum to continue pushing TIAA to stop buying up farmland and repair the damage they have caused.’ Photo: Brandon Wu/ActionAid

Nice little earner

What connects the retirement savings of US teachers with inflating land and food prices in Brazil? Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain.

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Around 700 families were evicted from the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India in November 2017, following an order of the Guwahati High Court. Photo: Zuma Press/Alamy

For whose protection?

A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world leaders in December. But not everyone is happy about it, as Amy Hall reports.

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Land back

For generations, Indigenous-led actions have been pushing for the return of traditional lands across the US and Canada. Riley Yesno explores how that spirit has been turned into a movement – embodied in schemes to redistribute wealth from non-Indigenous hands.

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Jumma Buddhist student monks call for an end to violence in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) outside the United Nations building in Bangkok, Thailand on 5 March 2010. Their protest followed a deadly attack on Jumma villages in the CHT which resulted in several deaths. Photo: Chaiwat Subparsom/Reuters/Alamy

Unwanted attraction

For decades, Indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts have lived under the violence of military rule. Hana Shams Ahmed reports on how the Bangladesh government’s push for tourism in the region is further threatening their right to land.

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Land - The Facts

Land - The Facts

Whose farm?, land deals, trashing the place, city folk.

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Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on land rights.

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A group of women tend to vegetables in Koyli Alpha, Senegal, in March 2019. They were taking part in the Great Green Wall project which has the ambition of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land across the African continent by 2030. Photo: Simon Townsley/Panos Pictures

The land is ours

We depend on it for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning, writes Amy Hall.

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Spotlight: The Critics

Nigerian cousins who share a love of hi-tech science fiction movies. Words by Subi Shah.

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Introducing... William Ruto

The 2022 Kenyan presidential election victor.

Richard Swift November, 2022 540 Buy
Charles the last?

Report on the Commonwealth’s future role from Nigeria by Obiora Ikoku.

Obiora Ikoku November, 2022 540 Buy
Hear us roar

It’s 40 years since the establishment of peace camps at the British atomic weapons bases of Greenham Common and Faslane. Speaking to the women at the centre of four decades of resistance, Denise Laura Baker asks what keeps them going.

Denise Laura Baker November, 2022 540 Buy
Pushed back and pushed on

The treatment meted out to asylum-seekers in Lithuania has hardened since Belarus opened up a migration channel into the country. Severia Bel speaks to people trapped in the political crossfire.

Severia Bel November, 2022 540 Buy
Muzzling the media in Zimbabwe

With the country heading towards a general election, the clampdown on press freedom is an attack on democracy itself. Busani Bafana reports from Bulawayo.

Busani Bafana November, 2022 540 Buy
Roads for the rich, tents for the poor

Kenyan social justice activist Anami Daudi Toure speaks to Amy Hall about how he and his neighbours in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga settlement are picking up the pieces after violent mass evictions.

Amy Hall November, 2022 540 Buy
Nice little earner

What connects the retirement savings of US teachers with inflating land and food prices in Brazil? Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain.

Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan November, 2022 540 Buy
For whose protection?

A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world leaders in December. But not everyone is happy about it, as Amy Hall reports.

Amy Hall November, 2022 540 Read
Land back

For generations, Indigenous-led actions have been pushing for the return of traditional lands across the US and Canada. Riley Yesno explores how that spirit has been turned into a movement – embodied in schemes to redistribute wealth from non-Indigenous hands.

Riley Yesno November, 2022 540 Buy
Unwanted attraction

For decades, Indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts have lived under the violence of military rule. Hana Shams Ahmed reports on how the Bangladesh government’s push for tourism in the region is further threatening their right to land.

Hana Shams Ahmed November, 2022 540 Buy
Land - The Facts

Whose farm?, land deals, trashing the place, city folk.

November, 2022 540 Buy
Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on land rights.

November, 2022 540 Buy
The land is ours

We depend on it for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning, writes Amy Hall.

Amy Hall November, 2022 540 Buy
Spotlight: The Critics

Nigerian cousins who share a love of hi-tech science fiction movies. Words by Subi Shah.

Subi Shah September, 2022 539 Buy
Mixed Media: Music

All of Us in Flames; Afar Ways.

September, 2022 539 Read