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Information soldier

Information soldier

India’s RTI – Right to Information – and tea-stall culture.

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Coal sting

Coal sting

German energy giant sues the Netherlands for compensation, reports Nick Dowson.

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Meal finishers

Meal finishers

‘You won’t be upset if I finish your plate?’.

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Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries like the Allegra. Photo: Karlos Zurutuza

Deadly quarantine

Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries, reports Karlos Zurutuza.

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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

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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Libertad Gómez, who crossed the gender barrier to become adept in the traditional Zoque decorative artform of  making ceremonial offerings with mango leaves and flowers. Photo: Changiz M Varzi

Cresting the wave

Changiz M Varzi meets Mexican indigenous women artists who are defying convention.

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Colour-co-ordinated laundry hanging out to dry in the background, children play in the parking lot of Cissie Gool House, an unused government hospital in the Woodstock neighbourhood, occupied by 700 evictees from the area since 2017. Image: Lerato Maduna

Fighting dispossession

Cape Town’s citizens’ groups are not taking housing injustice lying down, according to Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot.

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All images accompanying this article are from Bihać, Bosnia, close to the border with Croatia. 
Worldly goods: an Afghan asylum-seeker with blankets and a sleeping bag donated by a local NGO, January 2021.  Due to their existence in unheated makeshift shelters, refugees often risk hypothermia and serious illness. Photo: Michele Amoruso

Beaten back

The vicious game of hounding out asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law. Katie Dancey-Downs reports.

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Lesson under a tree. Showing photographs and talking about the differences between Britain and Burkina Faso to a class of schoolchildren in 1995. Photo: Claude Sauvageot

New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next

Chris Brazier looks back over a career as a co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.

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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

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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Yewande Oyetade, a medical laboratory technician in Lagos, Nigeria, collects samples for Covid-19 testing at the Agege Primary Health Centre. Photo: Andrew Esiebo/Panos

Scientific internationalism

It is thanks to scientists collaborating across borders that vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed so fast, argues Rajni George.

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Making a point: Bill Gates addresses the media after his address to the World Health Assembly at the UN in Geneva. Photo: Reuters/Alamy

The Gates factor

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has a key role in shaping the global response to the pandemic. And it’s not good news for health equality. Nick Dowson investigates why.

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French biochemist Louise Pasteur in his laboratory, where he developed pioneering vaccines against chicken cholera and rabies using ‘attenuated’ or weakened bacteria. Photo: GL Archive/Alamy

A history of vaccines

Swagata Yadavar traces the ups and downs in the history of vaccination.

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 Illustration: Westend61 GMBH/Alamy

Dreams of magic bullets

Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

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Information soldier

India’s RTI – Right to Information – and tea-stall culture.

Devyani Nighoskar May, 2021 531 Buy
Introducing... Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai

The Prime Minister of Mongolia.

May, 2021 531 Buy
Coal sting

German energy giant sues the Netherlands for compensation, reports Nick Dowson.

Nick Dowson May, 2021 531 Buy
Meal finishers

‘You won’t be upset if I finish your plate?’.

Audrey Simango May, 2021 531 Buy
Deadly quarantine

Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries, reports Karlos Zurutuza.

Karlos Zurutuza May, 2021 531 Buy
When KFC came to Kenya

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.

Kabugi Mbae May, 2021 531 Read
Cresting the wave

Changiz M Varzi meets Mexican indigenous women artists who are defying convention.

Changiz M Varzi May, 2021 531 Buy
Fighting dispossession

Cape Town’s citizens’ groups are not taking housing injustice lying down, according to Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot.

Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot May, 2021 531 Buy
Beaten back

The vicious game of hounding out asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law. Katie Dancey-Downs reports.

Katie Dancey-Downs May, 2021 531 Buy
New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next

Chris Brazier looks back over a career as a co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.

Chris Brazier May, 2021 531 Read
A silver lining

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.

Christopher Morgan May, 2021 531 Read
Scientific internationalism

It is thanks to scientists collaborating across borders that vaccines against Covid-19 have been developed so fast, argues Rajni George.

Rajni George May, 2021 531 Buy
The Gates factor

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has a key role in shaping the global response to the pandemic. And it’s not good news for health equality. Nick Dowson investigates why.

Nick Dowson May, 2021 531 Read
A history of vaccines

Swagata Yadavar traces the ups and downs in the history of vaccination.

Swagata Yadavar May, 2021 531 Buy
Dreams of magic bullets

Richard Swift warns against vaccine fantasy and kneejerk technophilia.

Richard Swift May, 2021 531 Buy