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 Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Lazarus Chakwera

Richard Swift introduces us to Malawi’s president.

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Nicolle takes a break on the terrace of the Arcoiris office. Photo: Frauke Decoodt

On the pink corridor

How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa.

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Jalila Khamis Kuku. Illustration: Yasmin el-Nour and Duha Mohammed

Mothers of the Revolution

In 2019, Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir was brought down in a revolution orchestrated largely by women. But while the dictator might have gone, the divisions wrought by his 30-year rule endure. Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir and discover a movement for change in full swing.

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Images from Algiers of the demonstrations marking the first anniversary of the Hirak, 22 February 2020, before the pandemic brought a halt to such mass gatherings. The cake proclaims that the regime (système) has to move (dégage), a popular slogan of the protests. Photos: Riad Kaced

‘The people want independence!’

The Covid-19 pandemic may have put Algeria’s revolutionary uprising temporarily on hold, but, as Hamza Hamouchene observes, the will to topple the military regime remains strong.

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Safeguarding without snooping

A public-health emergency requires a degree of monitoring people. All the more reason to be especially vigilant on privacy, argues Nick Dowson.

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Can workers reset the system?

Coronavirus has closed factories and workshops across the world, spelling disaster for millions of people who subsist on poverty wages. Tansy Hoskins reimagines a garment industry where workers are better protected.

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The packed huddle of Rocinha favela, clumped just beyond the skyscrapers in Rio De Janeiro’s South Zone, Brazil. An astounding 100,000 people are crammed into an 1.4 square-kilometre area. Photo: Thomas Haensgen/Alamy

A human story

According to the old adage, ‘the economy is a subset of society’. Now, more than ever, we need to act like we believe it, says Dinyar Godrej.

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Hunger - The Facts

Hunger - The Facts

Our dysfunctional food system was failing before Covid-19.

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Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

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Plastic has made a comeback thanks to Covid-19. Photo: Edward Howell/Unsplash

5 polluters making the pandemic pay

As Covid-19 spread across the world, greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted, thanks to a reduction in human activity. But meanwhile, writes Amy Hall, some of the world’s most polluting companies and industries have been using the pandemic to maintain and even ramp up their environmentally ruinous activities.

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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

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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Coronaman: Delhi Police get creative with this cut-out poster warning residents to stay at home – a tough ask for daily wage earners. Photo: Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto/PA Images

Beyond borders

Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.

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Action and Information

Action and Information

Covid-19 related research and advocacy groups to support.

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Young Rio favela residents, part of the grassroots Marcha das Favelas group, organize mutual aid to make up for the absence of the Brazilian state in tackling the crisis. Photo: Ellan Lustosa / Zuma / Alamy

Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

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Introducing... Lazarus Chakwera

Richard Swift introduces us to Malawi’s president.

Richard Swift September, 2020 527 Buy
Revealed: churches still bankrolling polluters

Update from Britain by Frances Rankin.

Frances Rankin September, 2020 527 Buy
On the pink corridor

How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa.

Frauke Decoodt September, 2020 527 Buy
Mothers of the Revolution

In 2019, Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir was brought down in a revolution orchestrated largely by women. But while the dictator might have gone, the divisions wrought by his 30-year rule endure. Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome meet the women who helped bring down Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir and discover a movement for change in full swing.

Lucy Provan and Alice Rowsome September, 2020 527 Buy
‘The people want independence!’

The Covid-19 pandemic may have put Algeria’s revolutionary uprising temporarily on hold, but, as Hamza Hamouchene observes, the will to topple the military regime remains strong.

Hamza Hamouchene September, 2020 527 Buy
Safeguarding without snooping

A public-health emergency requires a degree of monitoring people. All the more reason to be especially vigilant on privacy, argues Nick Dowson.

Nick Dowson September, 2020 527 Buy
Can workers reset the system?

Coronavirus has closed factories and workshops across the world, spelling disaster for millions of people who subsist on poverty wages. Tansy Hoskins reimagines a garment industry where workers are better protected.

Tansy Hoskins September, 2020 527 Buy
A human story

According to the old adage, ‘the economy is a subset of society’. Now, more than ever, we need to act like we believe it, says Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar Godrej September, 2020 527 Buy
Hunger - The Facts

Our dysfunctional food system was failing before Covid-19.

September, 2020 527 Buy
Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

Hazel Healy and Mohamed Camara September, 2020 527 Buy
5 polluters making the pandemic pay

As Covid-19 spread across the world, greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted, thanks to a reduction in human activity. But meanwhile, writes Amy Hall, some of the world’s most polluting companies and industries have been using the pandemic to maintain and even ramp up their environmentally ruinous activities.

Amy Hall September, 2020 527 Buy
Green and just

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

Fadhel Kaboub September, 2020 527 Buy
Beyond borders

Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar Godrej September, 2020 527 Buy
Action and Information

Covid-19 related research and advocacy groups to support.

September, 2020 527 Buy
Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

Vanessa Baird September, 2020 527 Buy