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Mary Namakando digs out facts and ratings on one of Southern Africa's most politically stable countries and probes President Sata's grapple with corruption.

The arms trade tends to have the government's ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive?

Brian Loffler on how some blue-skies thinking created a green inspiration.

Sylvia Rowley catches up with exceptional filmmaker Emily James.

A new public transport system is designed to halt the terrorizing of drivers and their passengers, but residents fear the state is powerless against criminal gangs.

Put environmental villains in the dock, says campaigner Polly Higgins.

A gay Iraqi, a Jewish Iranian and a Saudi feminist tell their stories

Fall-out from nuclear test zone still killing Kazakhs.

Gordon is well-grounded in both anarchist theory and as an activist in Britain and his own country, Israel. He provides a useful examination of the movement in many ways at the heart of the resistance to contemporary war and globalization.

The simple – and brilliant – premise of Khaled Al Khamissi's Taxi is to bring together 58 short fictional dialogues with some of Cairo’s 80,000 cab drivers, drawn from his own extensive experience of taxi journeys through this polluted, turbulent city.

Bragg tempers the unfashionable humanity of his songs with a sad acknowledgement of current realities.

For anyone interested in the past, present and future of this uniquely Portuguese melancholy, the Mariza Box is a handsome object containing Mariza’s three solo albums.

A wonderful documentary that tells the story of 400 families who were forced from their housing project in the shadow of Capitol Hill, Washington DC, by speculative development.

A beautifully composed episodic study of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, his family, friends and community.

Kechiche, like Fatih Akin, the Turkish-German film-maker, shows us how the lives of migrants and their children straddle cultures, and, like Akin’s Head-On, Couscous is passionate and earthy.